1) What country are you from?
USA
2) Are you having a referendum on the proposed EU constitution? If you don't do you think you should?
No, we're not. No, we shouldn't 
3) Have you read the constitution?
All 250 pages of it? No.
4) I have read parts (because I don't trust the BBC or any other news outlet to portray it in an unbiased fashion). I plan on reading it fully. Would you find it useful for me to make post summaries and what I think the implications are of the various articles?
Perhaps useful isn't the right word. I would find it informative.
5) If there were a referendum tomorrow how would you vote (assume just a yes or no question – yes to accept, and no to reject)?
I would stay out of it.
6) Do you plan on voting in the European elections in the summer?
Nope.
For those that are having a referendum:
7) Do you think that your government will set a simple, unbiased question just about the EU constitution?
For the Americans & others:
The EU is getting to a scale where it can compete with the US economically. The EU is enlarging from 15 to 25 countries this year. At this point it will be bigger than the US in terms of population and the economic gap will diminish even more, possibly, over time to a situation where it will be bigger than the US.
a) What is your impression of the EU at the moment?
I think it should move towards direct elections for its leaders.
b) Do you know much about it?
More than many.
c) Does the above (the intro to question 8, i.e. EU getting just as big if not bigger than the US) bother you?
Nope.
d) Why? / Why not?
I can't think of a good reason why it should, therefore it does not.
e) Do you think it is good to have a counter-balance to the US?
Not generally. It really depends on the issue at hand.
Is that what the EU will be? A counterbalance? That sort of sets us up to be in opposition to each other, doesn't it? The EU is not a new Soviet Union.
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This message last edited by aerocontrols on 4/20/2004 at 12:51:45 PM.
