Eurealist :: Constitution for a European military

Eurealist is blogging on the constitution for a military,European corefrom what the Constitution says which is all in all rather disturbing, especially what has been found about the role of democratic accountability in this strategy:

"In addition to the member states and, thus, the individual state parliaments, the European Parliament shall be deprived of any participation in the future military engagements of the EU. It will merely be ,,heard on a regular basis' and ,,informed'about developments and is, otherwise, dependent on the good will of the EU Foreign Minister, because he ,,will be vigilant to ensure that the concepts of the European Parliament will be taken into account sufficiently' (Article I-39 and III-205). Thus, even the appearance of democratic control over future military policy is abolished."

Combine this with the policy outlined in my previous post about Tony Blairs desire to see our armed forces subsumed into this coming Single European Army and it looks rather alarming.