Bham, I did not begin to "bend" the Treaty, but I wrote a draft mail, which in any case I would send. Here is the content, in case some would like to correct / lighten and / or co-sign or even simply comment:
Sir,
Our French media would sometimes imply that you are an Anti-European.
I am (we are) for my (our) part, a convinced Pro-European and I should welcome the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty by the Irish people. It still seemed, according to our media, that it was the last bulwark in the implementation of this text.
But after the announcement of the result, they signaled that the Czech people, by your signature, had still not ratified this Treaty, like the English people for that matter ...
You therefore represent the last resort to the opponents of the implementation of this text, which a large majority of French citizens (of which I was a member) had rallied, by refusing it by referendum.
As you rightly pointed out, during an interview after the publication of the results of the Irish consultation, the voice of the people is becoming more and more distant, tenuous, and manipulable in the face of that of the elites in place who tend to to be confused: "mandated by the people" and "all powers". The examples of France and Ireland are very representative, not to mention that of the Netherlands.
This state of affairs is particularly true in France and even more glaring at the European level, where the complexity of the functioning of the institutions suffers from serious ignorance by the average citizen (of whom I am).
I cannot foresee in advance the impact that this letter will have, but I suspect that, even if you are surely not the only elected in this current, your position must currently be rather uncomfortable, so much at the national level , than at European level.
Also, I allow myself (we allow ourselves) to send you this letter of encouragement to support you, at least in your attitude denouncing this theft of Democracy from the citizen.
Europe is a beautiful generous idea, so I can't believe we are against it for a moment. Whether you are against his perversion, yes, but I cannot imagine that we are against its construction in order to protect Man, in the same way that he builds his house ...
If I know very little about the exact content (like 90% of my fellow citizens) of the said Treaty, everyone agrees that it advocates an American-style Ultra-Liberalization, the devastating effects of which we see today, that we will see again tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow for worse, even if a few warning signs would make Ultras-Liberals say that the worst is over.
For your position with regard to the Treaty itself, also receive my (our) support, which I humbly ask you to accept ...
At Cap'tain,
Not easy
the Lisbon Treaty is unfortunately not what I expect from Europe, but it could be a starting point
No, it could be just a crossing point: there has already been Rome, Maastricht, Nice, etc ... And I don't have the impression that the meaning is right.
Don't forget 73! This is the year when the French State sold off its power to create its own currency! I'm not sure, but I think that Europe at the time pushed a little wheel, right?
As for the others of your wishes, we have them all! But the non-return clauses enshrined in the Treaty do not lead me to believe that this is possible quickly, or even possible at all ...
On the other hand, the Treaty is what it is, it has the merit of existing, and one point to take away from the detractors of this text is that nobody has ever bothered to propose something else, like alternative text. Or else, I am very ill-informed (not impossible)!
In short, I have the impression that the choices that we are offered are choices of fools, like: "it's that or nothing at all" ...
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), etc ... Everything that was interesting and good disappears, is crushed, becomes unnoticed in a standard without spices and without taste. What 