By Chris Brown ⋅ December 21, 2007 ⋅ This editorial article was published in the Washington Times on the 19th December.

Back in the ‘EUSSR’

By Paul Belien — December 19, 2007

Last Thursday, the heads of government of the 27 member states of the European Union convened in the Portuguese capital Lisbon to sign the EU Reform Treaty. That “Treaty of Lisbon” is almost identical to the European Constitutional Treaty, the so-called EU Constitution, which was rejected two years ago in referendums in major EU member states.
The EU rules stipulate that treaties only become effective when they have been ratified in all 27 member states. The “no” votes in the 2005 referendums killed the constitution, which would have transformed the EU from a supranational organization of 27 sovereign member states into a genuine single European federal state with 27 provinces. It was clear from the outset, however, that the peoples of the various European states were not willing to renounce their national sovereignty for a “United States of Europe.”
Nevertheless, the European leaders are determined, no matter what their electorates say, to transform the EU into a “United States of Europe.”
 As Jean-Claude Juncker, the prime minister of Luxembourg, said prior to the referendums: “If the vote is yes, we will say: We go ahead. If it is no, we will say: We continue.” Or as the former president of France, Valery Giscard d’Estaing, the chairman of the so-called convention, which drew up the constitution, said: “The rejection of the constitution [by the voters in referendums] was a mistake which will have to be corrected.”
In order to correct the voters’ mistake the reform treaty was drafted. This treaty is a copy of the constitution, with the articles in a somewhat different order, with many additions to deliberately complicate the text and without references to a national flag or anthem. As Mr. Giscard explained in June to the Paris leftist paper Le Monde: “Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly… All the earlier proposals will be in the new text, but will be hidden and disguised in some way.”
Or as Guiliano Amato, the foreign minister of Italy and the former vice chairman of the convention, said about the document that the European leaders signed last week: “They decided that the document should be unreadable. If it is unreadable, it is not constitutional, that was the sort of perception.”
The EU leaders agreed that none of the member states (apart from Ireland, which is obliged to do so under its own constitution) will hold a referendum about the new treaty. Instead, the national parliaments will ratify the treaty. “There is a cleavage between people and governments,” admitted French President Nicolas Sarkozy. “A referendum now would bring Europe into danger. There will be no treaty if we had a referendum in France.”
Once the Lisbon Treaty is ratified in all member states, the legal nature of the EU will change into that of a state. The national constitutions and the national parliaments will be subordinate to the EU, which will be enabled to unilaterally increase its own powers.
Europe’s politicians are very eager to sell out their national sovereignty to the EU because the Brussels-based EU governing bodies are either unelected (the commission) or unaccountable (the council). Moreover, the European Parliament is not a real parliament. It cannot reject the so-called EU directives, which the national parliaments are obliged to incorporate into their national legislation. Even today, up to 70 percent of the legislation in the various 27 EU member states emanates from Brussels.

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Posted by Peter | December 21, 2007, 3:41 pm “The rejection of the constitution [by the voters in referendums] was a mistake which will have to be corrected.” So THAT’S what Democracy is about. Not the slightest hint of arrogance, no sign at all of utter and total contempt, no trace of fascism or tyranny there, then. You proles want national sovereignty? Tough. You want to vote, to reaffirm your opposition? Tough. You want to live by perfectly good laws you’ve had for centuries? Tough. You want to remain British, French, Swedish or whatever? Countries will now be abolished, so get used to it you scum, what do you know anyway? Now shut your mouths and take another 35 million immigrants we don’t want. And LEARN TO OBEY THE DICTATS OF THE UNELECTED COUNCIL WHICH MUST BE OBEYED. YOUR PATHETIC, TRAITOROUS ‘GOVERNMENT’ DOES AND SO WILL YOU.


Posted by apendragon | December 21, 2007, 6:15 pm With the EU there is a president and other important positions but we never seem to have voted for these “characters”.