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The time may not have come for a true European constitution, but confronting, rather than evading, the fundamental issues that the EU faces could create the proper context for reviving the constitutional treaty and preparing the Union for the challenges of our time.
Today, the treaty covers 90% of the world’s population and has contributed to a significant decline in sales for global tobacco corporations.
Although President Bill Clinton signed the treaty establishing the ICC, the Bush administration withdrew that signature, and the US is still not a party to the treaty.
With more realistic expectations, it achieved results: the New START arms control treaty, tougher sanctions on Iran, cooperation on transportation to and from Afghanistan, and Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization.
In 1998, Russia first proposed a UN treaty to ban electronic and information weapons (including for propaganda purposes).
The US continues to view such a treaty as unverifiable.
The failure to achieve multilateral trade liberalization by concluding the Doha Round means that the world lost the gains from trade that a successful treaty would have brought.
On December 17-18, negotiators are scheduled to meet in Geneva to decide whether this agreement will take the form of a simple, workable treaty or some kind of non-binding “soft law.”
Sight-impaired people around the world desperately need a lucid, workable treaty, and not a “soft law” encumbered by caveats and riddled with loopholes that favor copyright holders rather than balancing publishers’ rights with the needs and rights of the visually impaired.
The European Union, after years of refusal, finally agreed in November to support a treaty; it should now press for clear, implementable language that will allow organizations to share braille, large-print, and audio books with each other and with people whose disabilities make them unable to read.
It is time for President Barack Obama’s administration to see what we see and allow its negotiators to press for adoption of a legally binding treaty.
Negotiating a follow-up treaty to the Kyoto Protocol, they argue, requires that we seek even deeper cuts in the pollution that causes global warming.
Rather, they should suggest a treaty binding every nation to spend, say, 0.1% of GDP on research and development of non-carbon-emitting energy technologies.
Russia and China have sought to establish a treaty establishing broad international oversight of the Internet and “information security,” which would prohibit deception and embedding malicious code or circuitry that could be activated in the event of war.
While Japan should not abandon its security treaty with the US, it can and should rearm, with an exclusive focus on defense.
That debate is the result of the rejection of the draft treaty by French and Dutch voters in 2005.
But those “no” votes have obscured the fact that 18 of the EU’s 27 member states have ratified the treaty.
For all these reasons, the institutional reforms that are contained in the constitutional treaty are still urgently needed.
At a meeting convened by Spain and Luxembourg in Madrid in January to which all the “yes” countries were invited, this view was also supported by four other member states that are committed to the constitutional treaty.
The solution to the impasse over Europe’s Constitutional Treaty certainly does not lie in the direction of diminishing its scope, and thus perhaps making it just an “ordinary” treaty.
Beyond that, Lugar had fully supported Obama’s vision, like that of Ronald Reagan before him, of a world without nuclear weapons, and his endorsement of the New START treaty with Russia, reducing the number of deployed strategic weapons, was crucial in securing its narrow ratification by the Senate last year.
Why France Will Sink Europe’s ConstitutionIf public opinion polls are to be believed, on May 29 the French will reject the European Union’s draft constitutional treaty.
After the inconclusive end of the UN led Bali talks on the global environment, worry has grown among US and European industries – especially iron, steel, cement, glass, chemicals, and pulp and paper – that any new climate treaty would put them at a big disadvantage against their fast-growing competitors in China.
Developing nations’ allies, meanwhile, are warning that the sanctions plan could destroy the chances of a post-Kyoto treaty.
Was that world a worse and more dangerous one than today, where our main nuclear concerns are how to prevent proliferation and strengthen the treaty that has deterred it for the last generation?
Indeed, European Union leaders know better than to announce such an ambition, which would require a new treaty – no one is prepared to open up that can of worms.
The Benelux Economic Union treaty of 1944 was an early testing ground for the Europe of the Six, and it was the joint Benelux Memorandum, fathered by the far-sighted J. W. Beyen and presented in Messina in 1955, that gave the impetus to the creation of the common market.
In 1991, when the Netherlands held the European presidency, Belgium supported its far-reaching draft for a treaty of European Union.
Though Tsipras, too, claims to favor the euro, he never mentions the fiscal discipline that it requires, or that Greece got into trouble because it violated its treaty obligations.
President Barack Obama has endorsed this treaty as a vital instrument to discourage proliferation and avert nuclear war.
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