Quote Originally Posted by Fragony
Bigger then the constitution of the individual countries, Brussels could have enforced whatever the hell pleased her.
What shitty brochure have you been reading this time? Under this Constitution the Heads of State would take all the important policy decision by unanimity, and 'Brussels' would carry them out only is as much as the individual countries couldn't do so their own.
Yeah you could protest (they did not have to listen) if you managed to find 1.000.000 people
Of course not! That's 1 million people on 470 citizens. They can file a petition, but that's all. Do you really think 1 million signatures under a petition should be sufficient mandate to change European laws?
It was a coup d'etat and the french saw that.
A coup d'etat of Tony Blair, Giscard D'Etaing and Jean-Claude Juncker?

Jean-Claude who?

Yeah rrright.