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To: Alex who wrote (47656)	1/29/2000 6:59:00 PM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Respond to of 116764

Blair Accused Of Planning Euro-Superstate Conservative leader William Hague says Tony Blair and Brussels bureaucrats are pushing ahead with plans to create a European superstate. Mr Hague argued that European Commission proposals published this week could lead to further EU integration, and a limiting of member states' right to use their national veto. But Mr Hague rejected Mr Blair's accusation that the Tories wanted to quit Europe. Mr Hague told the Council of Europe's European Democrat Group that the EC's proposals for the Intergovernmental Conference later this year let slip its integrationist ambitions. He said :"They are pushing for a European Union with its own government, its own army, its own taxes, its own foreign policy, its own criminal justice system, its own constitution, as well as its own currency - in other words, a single European state. "The submission is an integrationist wish-list - the blueprint for a single European state." Mr Hague said the EC wanted to expand the use of majority voting to push through policies which a minority of countries did not back. He said: "The national veto would be abolished in areas such as aspects of social security, social policy, industrial and transport policy, financial regulation and the spending of the multi-million pound structural and cohesion funds." The blueprint was not an "isolated document," the Conservative leader warned. He added: "It comes alongside moves to build a European defence capability independent of Nato, and a common foreign and security policy which the EU's High Representative concerned calls the 'integration project for the next decade'."