Reply #43: A constitution for Europe

[Frederik]

that cements a certain economic system is not desirable. The French and Dutch have done the right thing, IMO. The clause that allows companies to hire workers from low-cost countries and employ them in high-cost countries under the same terms and wages that apply in their country of origin was added towards the end of the process. That sort of anti-worker legislation has no place in a European constitution. The purpose of much of this long and cumbersome text seems to have been to introduce anti-social legislation that it would have been impossible for any single state to remove later.

The range of policies that can be decided by the nation-state through ordinary democratic channels has already narrowed significantly in EU members, transfering power to distant Eurocrats. This constitution would further advance that movement away from popular democacy, which I'm sure is what many of the "elder statesmen" in the Convention intended. You know, the hoi-polloi don't know what's best for them, they need unelected Eurocrats to lead them.