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EU leaders look ahead after landmark treaty deal
EU leaders look ahead after landmark treaty deal
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/EU_leaders_look_ahead_after_landmar_10192007.html
Published: Friday October 19, 2007
The EU can turn to new priorities such as globalisation after agreeing a new reform treaty, its leaders said Friday, but thoughts were also on the potentially tricky topic of ratification.
Heads of state and government from the 27 member nations wrapped up two days of talks in Lisbon with wide smiles but bleary-eyed after the treaty success.
"With this accord Europe has emerged from its institutional crisis," Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates told reporters.
The 'Treaty of Lisbon' -- which replaces the EU constitution scuppered by French and Dutch voters in referendums in 2005 -- was brokered in the early hours of Friday after overcoming last-minute Polish and Italian objections.
EU leaders deem the 250-plus page treaty vital because the bloc's rule book has not had a serious update since 10 Eastern European countries joined in May 2004, followed by Bulgaria and Romania in January.
Like the failed constitution, the treaty includes plans for a European foreign policy supremo and a more permanent president to replace the current cumbersome rotating six-month presidency system.
It also cuts the size of the European parliament and the number of EU decisions which would require unanimous support from member states.
However it drops all references to the EU flag or anthem, in attempts to assuage eurosceptics who see this as another move to a federal European superstate.
Unlike the constitution the treaty is an amending treaty, not something which would supercede all existing pacts.
However, the political agreement is not the end of the treaty's sometimes stormy passage.
The EU leaders will return to the Portuguese capital on December 13 to formally sign the text.
After that each of the 27 member states will have a year to ratify it, if it is to come into force as planned in January 2009.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy wasted no time in saying he hoped the French parliament would ratify the deal in December, just after it is signed.
Most other countries will be hoping to follow suit, getting the treaty formally adopted via the parliamentary route rather than putting it to the sort of unpredictable referendums which torpedoed the constitution it was drawn up to replace.
Only Ireland is constitutionally bound to hold a referendum but others, Britain especially, have growing pro-referendum lobbies.
"May or June is my preference," Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said after the talks here.
However the European leaders stressed that the treaty deal will allow the EU to concentrate on many pressing issues.
"We've agreed that there is to be a declaration of new priorities" before the next EU summit in December, said British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, so that Europe can "move away from the institutional inward-looking debate of the past to deal with the full agenda of globalisation that faces us." Britain also had many reservations about the treaty, but obtained opt-outs in key areas at the last EU summit in June.
Having successfully concluded the treaty deal on the first day of their Lisbon talks, the summiteers were able to concentrate on some wider questions which they hope to more fully embrace, with day two devoted largely to global warming and globalisation.
European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso summed up the delicate balancing act involved in spreading the gospel of globalisation.
"We must protect the citizens without being protective.
We should be open without being naive.
We should not close our doors, rather we should encourage others to open theirs," he said.
However the overwhelming sentiment emanating from the summit was that the door had been closed on years of crisis and institutional malaise with the advent of the Lisbon treaty.
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Im so friggin glad Norway isnt in EU.
Its fascist all the way from top to toe.
A little example from Norway (we're passive member to get market access, dunno what the threeletter shorting is heh), a gym for Oslo's university students said it would use EU laws to make the gymoffer more expensive and generaly more lousier.
I know its a small case but it certainly proves who the EU works for when thats how their laws are used.
Those pricks who have rewritten the EU constitution, or as they have renamed it to the "Lisboa Treaty" is basicly the same as the one that was turned down by the people when it was voted over and it was called the "constitution".The abovementioned pricks work not for any people, they are infact urged to not listen to the people.
I can say that cause last time they had votes if countries should accept the constitution or not, and EU stood left with a big fat NO.
Now there wont be any votes at all.
Its just deterined by some hacks who doesnt know wtf they are doing to the world or they have the concience of the Rockefellers and actually sleep good at night doing the wrong that they are doing.
I thank my fellow majority in Norway for being against EU!
The whole notion of a union to secure peace and open markets are redicules anyway.
I like to compare it with lord of teh rings were the kings take the rings sauron gives them in blind greed forever to be slaves.
Give up national and personal sovereignity(i never get that word right) so you can trade with us.
Its redicules, yet a guy i talked to seemed fine with it.
His defence against the NWO was "if they are all powerfull then we cant do anything, so GO EU".
I wished the tarding a good RFID life.
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Labour promised a referendum on the EU treaty and has reneged on this because they know full well that this would never be voted in by the British people.
PM Brown said he wanted the "fullest possible Parliamentary debate" on the treaty but this is a load of BS
Once this treaty goes through a country called Europe will exist and the decline of nation states will begin.
Its' just a stepping stone to the slippery slope leading to a one world totalitarian government.
Brown and other European leaders know this and don't care as once their terms are up they just move onto the EU elitists gravy train where they continue raking in the cash from taxpayers.
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