If you don’t believe what Valery Giscard d’Estaing himself said about the Lisbon Treaty in October 2007 (click on the image above) and still have any doubts that the Treaty of Lisbon and the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe are the same text in a different outfit, please take some time exploring the CONSTITREATY website. You’ll be surprised (or maybe not?).

NINETY-FIVE per cent of Express.co.uk readers would vote to leave the European Union if a referendum was held on Britain’s membership. […] Nearly 10,000 furious readers voted in our poll after we decided to hand democracy back to the people – and gave you a chance to have your say on the way current EU works. […] "We the public have never wanted to be subservient to any European State, indeed we have been fighting against this since 1066, long enough for the Government of the day to know the mind of its people.” […] (Daily Express, 95% say quit the EU, Monday July 14,2008, by Penny Stretton)

Aversion to the new EU Treaty now also appears to be spreading among Czech citizens, with a poll dated last Friday (11 July) revealing that the majority of the population is against the text, which is already under examination by the country’s court in an attempt by eurosceptics to prove that it is unconstitutional. […] The decision is expected in September or October, ahead of the next EU summit during which leaders want to decide how to proceed with the Lisbon Treaty following its rejection by the Irish. Despite pressure from other EU leaders to ratify the text before then, the Czech government has said it would not pass on the text to Parliament before the court ruling. […] (EurActiv.com, Fresh uncertainty looms over Czech treaty ratification, published Monday 14 July, 2008)

German President Suspends Ratification of EU Lisbon Treaty (DW-World.de, European Union, 30.06.2008, DW staff (sp))

[…] German President Horst Koehler will not sign off on the ratification of the embattled EU’s Lisbon Treaty until the country’s Constitutional Court decides whether the reform accord is compatible with the country’s Basic Law, his office said on Monday, June 30. […]

The Lisbon treaty: Sarkozy’s next move (From The Times, July 2, 2008, Times online)
With the rejection of the treaty; France must rethink its EU presidency

Another protocol for Ireland or opening up the Lisbon Treaty for new negotiations? (by Daniela Schwarzer, Friday, 04 July 2008, Newropeans magazine)

Poland in new blow to EU treaty

Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski says he will not sign the EU’s reform treaty at present, following its defeat in an Irish referendum last month. … (BBC News, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 09:04 UK)

Presidente polaco recusa assinar Tratado de Lisboa

O presidente polaco recusou assinar o Tratado de Lisboa. Em declarações a um jornal polaco, Lech Kaczynski justificou a sua decisão pelo facto de este documento já não fazer sentido depois do "não" irlandês. … (TSF, Hoje às 07:33)

Expense Allowance Abuse by MEPs

Please, watch this video. You just have to click on the image bellow and you’ll be directed to its page on YouTube.

You may want to watch also this one: Van Buitenen’s final battle against EU corruption?

A chance for Europe to face the New Truth (International Herald Tribune, By John Vinocur, Published: June 23, 2008)

[…] Hubert Védrine, the former French foreign minister, got it right: "Everybody knows that if there were referendums everywhere, the noes would have won in several countries. The disagreement between the elites and the populations is flagrant." (Védrine spoke before a poll last weekend showed France, had it voted, joining Ireland’s rejection front.)  […] What Europe could do, since it describes itself as the master of soft power, is stop trying to pile new, hard architecture on its soft mass. That means forgetting about becoming a mammoth lumbering with the cast iron paraphernalia of an all-purpose state. It could do things differently. And more simply. For example: concentrate its skills and energies on a single project. Deal with energy supply as a quasi-exclusive community priority for an unlimited period. People’s interest is there, and God knows there are enough bureaucrats in the 27 states and European Commission to handle all the rest of the business as usual. […]

London, England (AHN) - A British High Court advised Prime Minister Gordon Brown to defer the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty until a lawsuit filed by millionaire Stuart Wheeler is first resolved. […] (British PM Gordon Brown Holds Off Formal Ratification Of EU Treaty, June 20, 2008 10:05 p.m. EST, Vittorio Hernandez - AHN News Writer)

Good humor is essential to maintain the moral high in any army, even the one who fights for peace and democracy.

After the Irish voted down the Lisbon Treaty last week, French President Nicolas Sarkozy had this to say: "A lot of Europeans do not understand how we are shaping Europe right now and building Europe, and we have to take account of that. . . . We have to change our way of building Europe." […] (OPINION, Let ‘Europe’ Vote, By KYLE WINGFIELD, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL EUROPE, June 17, 2008, Brussels)

[…] So, I am certain of this: even if the Eurocrats, by sleight, blackmail and gerrymander, manage to yoke together the disparate, brawling menagerie from the Vistula to the Corrib, and Gibraltar to the Barents Sea, they’ll never plough a straight furrow. Never. Just watch. (Independent.ie, ‘No’ vote gives us all a chance to take fresh look at Europe, By Kevin Myers, Tuesday June 17 2008)

Europe’s century 

A vanishing Europe and lifestyle

We’d vote with our feet if the EU gave us half a chance 

Il faut construire l’Europe en respectant les peuples

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Page last updated at 13:19 GMT, Friday, 13 June 2008 14:19 UK
Irish minister says EU vote lost

The Irish are, indeed, a great people.

Follow the Results here:
How Ireland Voted
http://www.rte.ie/news/features/lisbontreaty/results.html
via: Credo, Catholic Journal (Ireland)

LE FIGARO INTERNATIONAL
13/06/2008 | Mise à jour : 19:01
«Le peuple irlandais a parlé au nom du peuple français»

We are free and proud citizens of free and sovereign European countries. We, and our possessions, can move freely throughout the other sovereign European countries. We don’t need to be citizens of a single, and militarily powerful, federative state called Europe. WE DO NOT WANT TO BECOME CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE. What makes Europe great is not the uniformity of Europeans but rather their diversity and differences.

If you agree with this declaration, please write a brief comment bellow encouraging our Irish fellow-citizens to vote NO on the referendum to the Constitutional Treaty, as they are the only to be asked in all Europe.

Disclaimer: This statement was wrote by a single Portuguese citizen and is not supported by any political, religious or institutional party or tendency.

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Final declaration (June 8, 2008): From this day until June 12th this blog’s only activity will be the moderation of new comments. No more information will be added, unless it’s something of extreme importance. The comments will now be taken to the knowledge of the largest possible number of Irish voters on the referendum. Dishonest and paltry ways left the Irish alone to take this huge decision, with this heavy responsibility. Please, be brave and vote NO to this undemocratic way to build Europe. I leave you with the powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel.