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Esta reseña aparece publicada en la Revista Actualidad Jurídica Aranzadi y se enmarca dentro del Programa Leyendo en Clave Jurídica 2017-2018 de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Deusto.

 

Europa vive tiempos convulsos. La crisis del euro, los refugiados, el terrorismo, el Brexit, la extrema derecha, el populismo, el euroescepticismo o el fracaso de una Europa social matraquean los oídos de aquellos que trabajan en Bruselas. Es necesario reexaminar la idea original de Europa y, concretamente, el proyecto de los Padres Fundadores que inspiraron la actual Unión Europea (UE). Uno de estos líderes fue Alcide de Gasperi y a quien descubrimos en la obra “Europa: escritos y discursos” editada por Encuentro en 2011. Gasperi nació en Trento el 3 de abril de 1881. Fue Primer Ministro italiano, Ministro de Asuntos Exteriores y el primer Presidente de la Comunidad Europea del Carbón y del Acero. Gasperi experimentó de cerca las guerras mundiales y el fascismo. En 1919, el Partido Popular Italiano que cofundó fue ilegalizado por las fuerzas fascistas lideradas por Mussolini y, en 1927, fue encarcelado hasta que dieciséis meses más tarde fue liberado. Tras el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial se comprometió con el proyecto europeo dada su convicción de que el futuro no se construiría “por la fuerza ni por el afán de conquista, sino por la paciente aplicación del método democrático, el espíritu de consenso constructivo y el respeto de la libertad” (p. 196).

Las terribles consecuencias de la guerra y el fascismo determinaron queGasperi fuera el principal precursor de una política común europea de defensa y el desarrollo de un ejército europeo que garantizase la paz. Si bien su propuesta destinada a establecer una Comunidad Europea de Defensa fracasó, desde el año 2016 la inestabilidad en las fronteras exteriores de la Unión y la volatilidad del entorno geopolítico ha reactivado el debate sobre si debe crearse una autoridad europea de defensa en la que se integren las fuerzas armadas de los Estados miembros. Asimismo, Gasperi trabajó por frenar el nacionalismo y promover el entendimiento entre naciones. En su opinión, el éxito de la unidad europea pasaba por la formación de una mentalidad común y supranacional. De lo contrario, “las instituciones supranacionales serían insuficientes y podrían convertirse en una palestra de competición de intereses particulares, si los hombres propuestos para ello no se sintiesen mandatarios de intereses superiores europeos” (p. 199).

La actual UE acusa la falta de un proyecto político propio, fuerte e independiente. Como señala el propio Gasperi, “Europa existe pero está encadenada, son estos hierros los que hay que romper” (p. 215). La UE está hoy encadenada a medidas cortoplacistas que deben satisfacer los intereses partidistas de cada Estado miembro. No existe un proyecto europeo que rompa con la apropiación a nivel estatal de los éxitos derivados de la integración e impida la descarga de los fracasos nacionales en la UE. La Unión del siglo XXI ha de reencontrarse con la Europa concebida por Gasperi que no es otra que la fundada en “el espíritu democrático de las instituciones libres y la aspiración de realizar una mayor justicia social” (p. 188).

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The European Union is committed to the continued full and effective implementation of all parts of the Iran nuclear deal. After international negotiations on the Iranian nuclear programme were concluded, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal, was implemented on 16 January 2016.

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Nobody gave ‘informed consent’ for Brexit. That’s because, in the 2016 referendum, the electorate was not sufficiently informed.

There was no blueprint, plan, proposal or manifesto for Brexit.

And there still isn’t. The Tory Cabinet is entirely split on what type of Brexit Britain should have.

And if the government can’t now agree on what Brexit means, how on earth could the electorate have known what Brexit meant on 23 June 2016?

We now know more about Brexit than we knew before. And in a few months time, we will know much more, including details of the final Brexit deal.

That’s why there needs to be a new vote on Brexit – so that this time, ‘the people’ can give their informed response.

The #PeoplesVote.

Based on the facts about Brexit, and not the falsities and flannel we were told during the referendum.

After all, when Parliament considers a decision, it’s allowed numerous debates, and multiple votes, over many months, and it can make changes, or abandon the decision, at any stage.

To allow ‘the people’ only ONE vote, on ONE day, on a vague idea for Brexit, without another vote on the actual final proposal, is not democratic. It’s tyrannical.

If our political masters are truly interested in ‘the will of the people’ they should have no hesitation in asking us what is our will today, rather than to keep relying on what they thought our will was yesterday (i.e. two years ago).

If the final details of Brexit are so good, then what have Brexiters got to worry about?

But if Brexiters have so little confidence in Brexit that they dare not let ‘the people’ have any further say about it, we should all be suspicious.

• As suspicious as we’d be about a double-glazing salesman who won’t let us get out of the deal, even though the deal isn’t anywhere close to what was originally promised.
• As suspicious as we’d be about putting an offer on a house, but not being allowed to cancel the offer when the surveyor’s report details serious problem after problem.

Because when buying a house, or ordering double-glazing, it’s ‘Subject to Contract’.

And that’s how it should be with Brexit.

Brexit is not yet agreed. And nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. So nothing is agreed.

Brexit is not yet a done deal.

If the details of Brexit had been agreed, we’d have voted on those details on 23 June 2016. But we didn’t have any details then. When we have the details, we need a new vote.

We need to insist that Brexit is ‘Subject to Contract’ – and that we, ‘the people’, should be able to express our view on that contract when we know what it is.

Remember, not one of the government’s impact assessments give any good news about Brexit. The government’s own ‘surveyors’ reports on Brexit detail serious problem after problem, and not one validated benefit.

Of course, Parliament should have the final say on Brexit – because Parliament is sovereign, and we live in a Parliamentary democracy.

But to help them to reach a decision, they should first ask us, ‘the people’, for our opinion on whether we really want to go ahead with Brexit, based on new facts we didn’t know before.

In a democracy, as in our own personal lives, we are allowed to change our minds.

The government should now say to ‘the people’:

‘This is the Brexit Britain will get. Now tell us, are you sure this is what you want?’

Only those who are against democracy will disagree.

Because a new vote on Brexit means more democracy, not less.

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When assessing whether a registration dossier of a chemical substance complies with the REACH Regulation, the European Chemicals Agency must act in accordance with the procedures laid down by the regulation

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Requests for family reunification must be examined even if the national of a non-EU country, who is a family member of an EU citizen who has never exercised his right of freedom of movement, is subject to an entry ban

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Freedom of establishment
Advocate General Wahl proposes that the Court holds that national legislation requiring a recipient of services to provide security in order to secure a fine that might be imposed on a service provider established in another Member State for breach of a provision of national labour legislation is contrary to EU law

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