From: Daniel Hartley (Oxford)
The Treaty of Nice will give the EU's institutions the power to ban political parties (article 191) and the power to reduce a member state to the status of a voteless colony (article 7). These are the powers of a dictatorship; we have seen nothing like them since the time of Brezhnev. Why have Tony Blair and Robin Cook not told us about them?
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