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  • The End, French Style
    1 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Today’s seismic shift in sentiment on Wall Street was due in no small part to the courageous vote by the citizens of France in turning down the proposition on ratification of the EU Constitution on Sunday. Their nay-saying to the much of the conceptual structure of the European Union struck a major chord for national identity and self-determination over the collectivism of the EU.
    The ramifications of this vote are likely to be far-reaching and extremely liberating. In essence, the people (…)

  • France : they Just Said, "NO!!"
    31 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jean-Pierre Desmoulins
    French citizens have just said "NO" to the new constitution that was submitted to their vote. I have heard so many things, in both the French and international media, so many analyses of the "NO" campaign in which I don’t see my opinion included, that I want to comment.
    First, I had some difficulties in making my mind up. Like the journalists of MARIANNE, a weekly which I favor, I was induced to vote "YES" by my old European convictions, yet "NO" by logical (…)

  • Vive la France! 55% say "NON" to Imperialist EU-Constitution! French save peoples of Europe!
    30 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    French Reject Europe’s First Constitution
    By JOHN LEICESTER, Associated Press Writer / 25 minutes ago/
    PARIS - French voters rejected the
    European Union’s first constitution Sunday, President Jacques Chirac said — a stinging repudiation of his leadership and the ambitious, decades-long effort to further unite the continent.
    Chirac, who urged voters to approve the charter, announced the result in a brief, televised address. He said the process of ratifying the treaty would (…)

  • France delivers its judgment, and Europe is plunged into crisis
    30 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Voters in overwhelming rejection of constitution UK poll in doubt after blow to ratification process
    Jon Henley in Paris, Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt in Brussels
    France’s voters last night decisively rejected the new European constitution, plunging the country into political upheaval and the EU into the deepest crisis in its 50-year history.
    The outcome also prompted immediate speculation in London that Britain’s planned referendum on the treaty was now pointless.
    With all of (…)

  • The second French revolution
    30 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Congratulations France!- Can you send your revolutionary spirit to the US? What the British press had to say about the result of the French EU referendum
    "It is trite to dismiss this ballot as the sort of intemperate activity that the French engage in every so often, one more ultimately futile revolt to add to a string of others ... The French have never repudiated a ’European’ cause in the past. That they have done so now demands deep contemplation.
    "The view of the French electorate (…)

  • Baudrillard "Sacred Europe" (translated online thanks a blog)
    29 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On saturday 28th (sorry of my bad English-just at the top)
    Here below is the article of Baudrillard published two weeks ago in "Liberation". This Saturday in Le monde 2-the weekly magazine of the daily Le monde-, photographic autoportrait of Baudrillard cover and long interview more explicative and more radicalized about the vote "No", on European referendum and on the question of Europe. He says that No it was as a silent local dissent at first BUT then it was a reflected dissent based on (…)

  • European Constitution Treaty, by Bellaciao
    28 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by the Collective Bellaciao
    To us, who fight with many people involved in politics, trade unions and associations for the refusal of Constitutional treaty by European citizens, a European Constitution has to design the democratic framework for EU institutions functions. It must finalize a proposal process coming from periphery toward center, from peoples toward elected representatives.
    Our adversaries, lead by financial capital and neo-liberal doctrine, try to definitely set the previous (…)

  • French communists find new life in `no`
    26 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    PARIS, France (UPI) — Facing a small audience of party faithful at a debate Tuesday vening, Patrick Bressac, a clean-shaven, 20-something climber in the French Communist Party offered a passionate primer on why French voters should reject the new European Union constitution at the polls Sunday.
    "This is not a question about yes or no to Europe," Bressac told some five dozen, mostly middle-aged residents of Paris18th arrondissement — a colorful neighborhood populated by Algerians and (…)

  • -bilingual- What Does Europe Want? SLAVOJ ZIZEK (May 04 -> 05)
    17 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Merci de copier, coller, faire suivre pour information ou à toute fin utile Please to copy paste, to follow for information and to be usefull anyway __________________________________________
    Apropos the European petition by organizations, unions and else to support the Left vote NO.
    Initiating K project
    La liste des signataires au 8 mai 05 / the list of signatures till May 8:
    Of SLAVOJ ZIZEK, who signed on the European petition and more has just published a book ito support the left (…)

  • APPEAL AGAINST THE PROJECT OF EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION
    11 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    All member states of the European Union will soon have to agree to or reject the project of European Constitution. A European campaign has just been launched in order to contribute to develop a large movement against this project of constitution. You can support it and join it by subscribing to the following text.
    SAY NO TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL TREATY TO BUILD ANOTHER EUROPE!
    We citizens, trade unionists, associations and organisations,
    URGE TO SAY "NO" TO THE PROJECT OF EUROPEAN (…)