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June 02, 2005
USA TODAY: Europe is Being Democratic.
USA TODAY stated in a June 2, 2005 editorial that,"Old-fashioned democracy" is thwarting "EU's grand plan." The paper noted that: Before the Netherlands rejected a new European constitution Wednesday, something out of the ordinary happened: Voters held hundreds of debates about it in town halls and coffeehouses.
"With their votes," USA TODAY added, "the French and Dutch people did indeed shatter the proposed constitution. They sent another message as well: Europe is not dead; it is being democratic. And that's important, too." Here's the entire editorial.
A similar raging discussion preceded France's resounding "no" vote three days earlier with a more in-your-face French flavor. In a typical scene, finger-jabbing sheep farmer Jose Bove told gathered crowds that "200 years after the (French revolution's storming of the) Bastille, the people of the left today are going to wreck this constitution!"
Posted by Munir Umrani at June 2, 2005 09:03 PM
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