Here are excerpts from Paul Belien's latest article on the events taking place in Europe:
On November 3rd 2009, at 3 pm local time, the Czech Republic ceased to exist as a sovereign state when Vaclav Klaus, its president, put his signature under the Treaty of Lisbon. The Czech Republic was the last of the 27 member states of the European Union to ratify the treaty which turns the EU into a genuine state to which it members states are subservient. (...)
The pressure on Klaus had been tremendous. Because the treaty could not come into force until the Czech ratification, the EU authorities and the political establishment of the 26 other member states had been tightening the screws on Prague. In early October, the Czech cabinet, under pressure from Berlin and Paris, had met in an emergency session to consider how to complete ratification in the event of Klaus’s continued intransigence. They even considered impeaching the president.
Bernard Kouchner, the French Foreign Minister, was very blunt on 15 October: he threatened that “a single man is not allowed to oppose the will of 500 million Europeans.” The “500 million Europeans” referred to the citizens of the 27 member states of the European Union, the “single man” to Vaclav Klaus. Kouchner’s declaration, however, was as deceptive and mendacious as the entire ratification process of the Lisbon Treaty had been throughout the EU. 500 million people had deliberately not been asked for their opinion of the treaty because the European political establishment feared they would vote it down. (...)
Now, with Mr. Klaus’s signature, the game has drawn to its close and a treaty, so despised by the people that it was never put to them, has turned 500 million Europeans into citizens of a genuine supranational European State which is empowered to act as a State vis-à-vis other States and its own citizens.
The EU will have its own President, Foreign Minister, diplomatic corps and Public Prosecutor. Henceforward, the only remaining sovereign power of any significance in Europe is Russia. Apart from Switzerland, Norway and Iceland, the EU leviathan has a grip on every other nation, whose national parliaments are, in accordance with the Lisbon Treaty, obliged to “contribute actively to the good functioning of the Union,” i.e. further primarily the interests of the new Union, rather than those of their own people. (...)
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Frankly, I don't understand the EU "Lisbon" Treaty. I understand that it is a trade agreement of sorts, something like NAFTA, perhaps.
I understand that it props up the European Union, and turns it into a sovereign government of sorts.
However, it seems to me nations like Germany, France, Switzerlan, Norway, and the UK simply will not allow their sovereignty to be superseded for long.
It would seem to me the EU Treaty is likely to collapse under a cacophonous wail, just like the Tower of Babel.
We shall see.
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It's not a trade agreement, it's a political treaty creating the framework for a future EU federal state, eg. a president, foreign minister, etc.
Switzerland and Norway aren't in the EU, but they're still subject to a whole body of EU rules and regulations.
Basically the Lisbon Treaty takes yet more power away from its constituent nations and concentrates it with the unaccountable, undemocratic European Commission and related Euro-bureaucracy. In short, it sucks.
You're right, Jeppo. It is not merely a trade agreement. It sets up a government to monitor the trade. It is the Constitution (with built in bureaucracy) of a Federal government.
What is your opinion on my Tower of Babel comment.
If the majority of Brits had their way it would collapse like the "tower of babel".
We were promised a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty but Labour renaged on that. Polls suggest 66% of the population would have said no.
Not only would they have said no to that but they would have voted to leave the EU.
The problem is with the Irish for instance, they are afraid they could not survive outside of the EU anymore. Poor countries receive benefits, countries like the UK pay the bills.
In my view the UK should leave the EU, we can survive on our own. The EU is simply the French and the Germans dominating Europe as both Napoleon and Hitler wanted to do but were thwarted by Britain.
In case you say what about the US thwarting Hitler I am saying in the early days we did it ourselves without any help. We prevented Hitler from invading Britain by ourselves, without any outside resources.
As long as Britain remained free and available as a springboard to Europe, Hitler could not have succeeded.
Ray,
You said: In case you say what about the US thwarting Hitler I am saying in the early days we did it ourselves without any help.
I say: Yes, I am aware of that. That's one of the major reason that I think Europe will never fall to Islam. You guys are just too tough. You have a killer instinct.
You said: If the majority of Brits had their way it would collapse like the "tower of babel".
I say: I believe that, eventually, the people's will will prevail. Look at the Thatcher phenomenon. This leftist swing is just a pendulum thing. Eventually, the lefties will screw everything up so badly, the people will realize they can not rely on their government and they will vote in someone who will scale it all back. That's going to happen in the USA in the next few years. You can be almost absolutely certain of that.
I don't know, Pasto. I wish I could be as confident as you that this whole rotten structure will somehow fall apart. Let's hope.
During my 46 years, I have watched the pendulum swing back and forth. Every time I think the world is coming to an end, it doesn't.
:)
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