Swedish relief as Czechs sign Lisbon Treaty

A very sad day for many Europeans. Unsurprisingly Reinfeldt hasn't got a clue what he is doing but can finally take a little credit for something; Even if it is convening over the destruction of elected rule in place of bureaucratic repression.

This si good news.

Now hopefully Europe can operate in a more efficient manner and we can all move forward together.

MEP Exposes The EU Lisbon Treaty!!! i would post a link but this site seems to like that

UK Conservatives now refuse to support a referendum. (What a surprise!)

Don't be surprised if UK citizens are less than enthusiastic at having Euro laws imposed without even a vestige of democratic process. It may be the best thing ever to have happened but without democratic credentials the Lisbon Treaty has no legs ... I can't understand the cowardice of the pro-Europeans to put this to the people properly.

Europe is just one big dysfunctional family. Over all the EU is probably a very good thing despite the many headaches but at times I'm certainly glad to be on the other side of the Atlantic.

@ Greg in Canada

Well at least Europe is not as dysfunctional as Canada and the USA:)

Jens-Peter Bonde, Danish MEP

There are 8,500 more words in the new text than the old one

but since they had the instruction from Sarkozy to make a

mini-treaty, the council was then instructed to change the font

so that they have less space between the lines and now they

managed to have 8,500 more words and 62 pages less. So that

way you can make a mini-treaty.

It´s not a very sympathetic way the European Council have worked

In this case they took a political agreement among

Prime Ministers that this text should not be put for referendum

anywhere, then they tried to avoid it in Ireland, they realised

it was not possible because your (Irelands) courts in this

country are still too independant, Congratulations on that.

Because you should know that what is published up ´til now,

what is signed by the Prime Ministers is a text they have

NEVER EVER READ! NEVER. Why? Because it can´t

Be read. This is not a treaty, this is 300 pages of amendments

To 3,000 other pages of treaties and you can only read it if

you take one amendment by one and then look it up in

the existing treaties and insert it. We will do that job for you

so that you will have as reader friendly an edition as possible.

They have decided in the council that its not allowed for any

Institution in the European Union to print a consolidated

version which can be read before it has been approved in all

27 member states. This is a decision! The European Parliament,

we agreed unanymously in the Costitutional Affairs Committee

that we wanted a reader friendly edition, a consolidated version

which could be read unanymously. We will not have it

because higher powers decided we cannot have it.

This is an instruction from some Prime Ministers that do not

want the text to be read. The order is ..SIGN! Read afterwards

495,000,000 people across Europe have no vote on the treaty.

Just don't sign on to that Global Climate Change piece of crap in Copenhagen this December.

The march towards the New World Order continues unabated.

Why are so many people belittling the Brits lately? I'd be pissed too if such a drastic change was being forced on me that was not approved by the public. Brits keep your voices up.

Europe is just a bunch of tiny countries in a tiny continent, with very tiny potential.

Isn't it time these tiny people realised they could be stronger united?

I guess now the building of the monstrous EU Presidential Palace will begin. I have been unable to find any mention of this in either the Guardian, DN, Svenska Dagbladet or The Local.

Only The Telegraph had to courage to let us know - and to spell out that it will cost a staggering £280 millions. Here is the link for readers of The Local:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6235333/EU-presidents-palace-will-cost-us-millions.html