EU "Harmonizes" Repression. (Insider Report).(European Union)(Brief Article)

European Union (EU) leaders gathered at the Royal Palace in Laeken, Belgium, in mid-December to put in place plans for a new "global superpower." According to the December 16th Washington Post, the EU summit launched "a constitutional convention to design a federated Europe that could govern more than a half-billion people from Dublin to Dubrovnik before the end of this decade."

At present the EU claims to represent "about 380 million people in 15 countries who share a common president, parliament, court system, central bank, anthem, bill of rights and 80,000 pages of legal code." One important subject on the agenda at Laeken was a proposal to put enforcement teeth into the EU's legal code by authorizing the issuance of union-wide arrest warrants. George PascoeWatson of the London Sun points out that under such warrants, British citizens "can be seized and handed over to a EU country to face trial, even if they have done nothing wrong under British laws."

The measure, which was described as an important part of "the international crackdown on terrorism," ensures that "suspects will be fast-tracked to justice and barred from using the appeals system to stay ahead of the law," noted the Sun. The London paper also ...