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| These Boots Are Gonna Walk All Over You |
| 2007-12-18 |
| From the desk of The Brussels Journal An analysis by Prof. Anthony Coughlan Today the European Union leaders signed the Lisbon Treaty. This treaty gives the EU the constitutional form of a state. These are the ten most important things the Lisbon Treaty does: 1. It establishes a legally new European Union in the constitutional form of a supranational European State. 2. It empowers this new European Union to act as a State vis-a-vis other States and its own citizens. 3. It makes us all citizens of this new European Union. 4. To hide the enormity of the change, the same name – European Union – will be kept while the Lisbon Treaty changes fundamentally the legal and constitutional nature of the Union. 5. It creates a Union Parliament for the Union's new citizens. 6. It creates a Cabinet Government of the new Union. 7. It creates a new Union political President. 8. It creates a civil rights code for the new Union's citizens. 9. It makes national Parliaments subordinate to the new Union. 10. It gives the new Union self-empowerment powers. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #3 PRAVDA > ANALYSIS: THE TREATY OF LISBON - END OF AN IMPASSE, OR THE BEGINNING OF THE END. For [democratic] Europe. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-12-18 23:36 |
| #2 Once again, Dr. Frankenstein succeeds where scientists with ethics fail. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-12-18 22:50 |
| #1 time for only one euro to be on the security council--> |
| Posted by: dan 2007-12-18 12:24 |