Lisbon - biggest political event since 1945.

An analysis by Prof. Anthony Coughlan a noted LEFTwinger. The new 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.

BE AWARE! If you haven't yet grasped the hidden dangers in points 1 - 8, LOOK at points 9 & 10! Point 10 is the mirror image of Hitler's Enabling Act of the 19th of June 1934 which allowed him to take absolute power and abolish democracy.

Had you really thought that eurorealists were making a lot of fuss over very little?

They weren't. Just because the EU has been more subtle does not mean that it is one whit less dangerous.