[Gllug] Any doubts about the EU (I know its off subject - but you've just gotta know this)

[Alistair Mann]

Dear Alain,

Someone on your 'other list' is talking out of its backside. The protocol 
referred to dates from 1965 (though is still effective) and accords 
essentially 'diplomatic rights' to those on EU business; reserves to other 
treaties how interstate crimes are handled; has nothing to say about official 
documents and buildings (at least in ch5) and in any case would under the 
draft constitution be superceded altogether. 

So it doesn't extend blanket immunity, doesn't apply to all "members of the EU 
governing structure", doesn't apply to all acts and deeds or "anything they 
do" and doesn't make anyone "above the law". I have learned that it is better 
to actually read the legislation concerned before parroting those with axes 
to grind. Perhaps you could do the same.

This all, of course, only has one thing in common with Linux: Law also relies 
on open source. 
"Protocol on the privileges and immunities of the European Communities of 8 
April 1965"
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/treaties/selected/livre501.html
-- 
Al

Thus spaketh Alain Williams on Thursday 01 Jul 2004 13:21:
> Seen on another list that I am a member of:
>
> Under Article 12 of Chapter 5 of the Protocol on the Privileges and
> Immunities of the EU, a blanket, life-time immunity has been extended to
> all members of the EU's governing structure for all acts and deeds
> committed, and this includes the tens of thousands of bureaucrats and civil
> servants who run the union - all have been granted a lifetime immunity from
> prosecution for anything they do. This also goes for the new European
> police force, Europol, and the commanders and soldiers of the new European
> Army. All buildings, offices, records, archives and minutes belonging to
> the EU and its institutions are inviolate. They cannot be entered or
> inspected by the public. So all personnel serving the EU are above the law,
> as declared in the treaties which our successive politicians have signed on
> our behalf.

-- 
Alistair

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