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The intended simplified way of amending the Treaty is highly revealing of the vacuity of the claims of belief in the importance that the Treaty of Lisbon would ascribe to national parliaments – as well as the European Parliament – and of the falseness of all the rhetoric concerning deepening democracy. Little more than a year down the line, the Treaty, which was supposed to last at least a generation, is then being amended, in a quick and simplified way because of the desire and pressure from the directorate of powers led by Germany, which wishes to preserve at all costs the economic and political dominance guaranteed to it by the instruments of this EU, including the single currency. Discussion, participation and democracy fall by the wayside.
If, in order to adopt the Treaty of Lisbon, they shied away from national referenda – and disrespected the few that were carried out – they now do not hesitate to escape even the scrutiny of the national parliaments. It is understandable if we consider the fact that, with the mechanism that they now wish to include in the Treaty and with so-called ‘economic governance’, there is a risk of these becoming meaningless words. There is no longer any doubt that they are intending to create a veritable straightjacket for the Member States, so that they may implement the strategy of deepening...
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