Kun Suomi on luopunut yksinoikeudestaan säätää lakeja
Suomessa ja määrätä omasta rahastaan, Suomi ei enää
ole itsenäinen valtio. Näitä valtiollisia oikeuksia
Suomi on luovuttanut Euroopan Unionille. Tämän vuoksi
Euroopan Unionin itsenäisyys on kasvanut ja Suomen
vastaavasti kaventunut. Ei voi olla samanaikaisesti
itsenäinen Euroopan Unioni ja itsenäinen Suomi,
jos Suomi pysyy Euroopan Unionin jäsenenä.
Euro-court outlaws criticism of EU
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels
THE European Court of Justice ruled
yesterday that the European Union
can lawfully suppress political
criticism of its institutions and of
leading figures, sweeping aside English
Common Law and 50 years of European
precedents on civil liberties.
The EU's top court found that the
European Commission was entitled to
sack Bernard Connolly, a British
economist dismissed in 1995 for
writing a critique of European
monetary integration entitled
The Rotten Heart of Europe.
The ruling stated that the commission
could restrict dissent in order to
"protect the rights of others" and
punish individuals who "damaged the
institution's image and reputation".
The case has wider implications for
free speech that could extend to EU
citizens who do not work for the
Brussels bureaucracy.
The court called the Connolly book
"aggressive, derogatory and insulting",
taking particular umbrage at the
author's suggestion that Economic and
Monetary Union was a threat to democracy,
freedom and "ultimately peace".
However, it dropped an argument put
forward three months ago by the
advocate-general, Damaso Ruiz-Jarabo
Colomer, which implied that Mr Connolly's
criticism of the EU was akin to extreme
blasphemy, and therefore not protected speech.
Mr Connolly, who has been told to pay
the European Commission's legal costs,
said the proceedings did not amount to
a fair hearing. He said: "We're back to
the Star Chamber and Acts of Attainder:
the rights of defendants are not respected
or guaranteed in any way; the offence of
seditious libel has been resurrected."
Mr Colomer wrote in his opinion last
November that a landmark British case
on free speech had "no foundation or
relevance" in European law, suggesting
that the European Court was unwilling
to give much consideration to British
legal tradition.
Mr Connolly now intends to take his
case to Europe's other court, the
non-EU European Court of Human Rights
in Strasbourg.
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