Agios Amvrosios wrote:I know very little about the Maastrict Treaty but if you(TC's) were granted partition (a separate state) which I would assume would be in the EU then you may not achieve the lonf term result you desire. Id est an ethnically pure state were only TC can vote.
After a brief period (you will not be able to prevent GC as citizens of the EU from freely moving around in the break away state, voting, becoming candidates in elections and generally enjoying basic democratic EU freedoms:
Well firstly the assumption that we want an ethnically pure state is not correct imo. We want a state where oue will is not subjecgated to a GC will. But even so there are several points here you are missing.
Firstly the rights of non nationals is to vote in muncipal elections and MEP election - NOT in the countires national elections. If GC are happy with such a restriction then the problem goes away - but as I understand it you want the right to live in the TC component state if you chose and to be able to vote in local AND state elections - which means that TC will become an effective political minority in both the GC component state and the TC one.
Secondly the section you refer to also includes
these arrangements may provide for derogation's where warranted by problems specific to a member state.
Agios Amvrosios wrote:I mean, then your "political equality" and whatever else could not be indefinitely guaranteed.
Actually if we were just another recognised state in the EU (your hypothetical senario) then our right to self determination is guaranteed - exactly as any other EU states is (not total - some sovreignty is seeded to the EU but much is retained by the state and non nationals have NO right to vote in a sates national elections, only their local ans 'super national' (EU) elections. You have just misunderstood what the very section of the treaty you posted means.
