{"id":287,"date":"2007-10-27T16:57:01","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T16:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2007-11-14T17:09:53","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T17:09:53","slug":"this-is-not-the-eu-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/this-is-not-the-eu-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"This is not the EU constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s biggest economy, the EU, passed a slightly rephrased<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/opinion\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10024446\"> constitution calling it a &#8220;reform treaty&#8221;<\/a> so that a referendum would not be needed.\u00a0 Whether or not the constitution is good is irrelevant to teh fact that the process by which the reform treaty was passed goes against the raison d&#8217;etre of the EU.\u00a0 The treaty may yet not be ratified, but without public referendums to support it, it will cause more problems than benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s biggest economy, the EU, passed a slightly rephrased constitution calling it a &#8220;reform treaty&#8221; so that a referendum would not be needed.\u00a0 Whether or not the constitution is good is irrelevant to teh fact that the process by which the reform treaty was passed goes against the raison d&#8217;etre of the EU.\u00a0 The &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/this-is-not-the-eu-constitution\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is not the EU constitution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-4D","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}