tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406430766424642773.post1021404590820689195..comments2023-09-28T12:28:57.598+03:00Comments on Grahnlaw: EU Treaty of Lisbon: participatory democracyRalf Grahn http://www.blogger.com/profile/02156293782163802007noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406430766424642773.post-4527582729350392002007-12-29T07:33:00.000+02:002007-12-29T07:33:00.000+02:00The Treaty of Lisbon maintains most of the institu...The Treaty of Lisbon maintains most of the institutional advances of the Constitutional Treaty, although the 18 countries which had ratified the Constitution had to make painful concessions to member states which had signed the Constitution in 2004 but failed to ratify it. <BR/><BR/>One of the signatories, Great Britain, introduced changes both generally weakening the Reform Treaty and special opt-outs, which limit the scope of the reforms concerning the UK. <BR/><BR/>If 35 years of British negativism are seen as insufficient, the UK Parliament can decide to secede.Ralf Grahn https://www.blogger.com/profile/02156293782163802007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406430766424642773.post-24878699769102805922007-12-28T21:48:00.000+02:002007-12-28T21:48:00.000+02:00"The new European Union Treaty has been designed t..."The new European Union Treaty has been designed to "keep the advances" of the old constitution "that we would not have dared present directly", a senior Brussels figure has admitted. Hans-Gert Poettering, president of the European Parliament and a close ally of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, made the admission in a letter to Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the architect of the discarded EU Constitution.<BR/>Another reason to leave...PLEASE<BR/>http://www.europeantruth.co.ukAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com