10Principles4Treaty 7

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7. OFFER SPACE FOR AN ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIC ORDER

Any new Treaty must respect the aforementionend fundamental values and democratic principles. It must offer space for implementing alternative policies instead of fixing one specific economic model like the CT and former treaties did, repeatedly stipulating an “open market economy with free and undistorted competition“1. This has no place either in a constitutional or an institutional treaty. Whatever economic model and regulation is chosen, must be left to a democratic policy-making process. The European Attacs demand:

• A Treaty must not fix a specific economic model and must allow alternative choices at all levels.
• “Free” competition must not be a universal principle of the EU. The definition of areas where “free” competition is allowed and of those where it does not apply (e.g. supply of potable water, education, health, agriculture) must be decided by democratic processes on national and EU level. In no case should such definitions be constitutionalized.
• European law, e.g. competition law, must not undermine the right of member states to define, organize and finance public goods, e. g. water supply, health care, education, or public transport. To the contrary, it must be a crucial aim of the European construction to provide and improve public goods at all levels.