Legal analysis of the EU Treaty

I posted the following comment on a blog called Grahnlaw, linked here. As it has not yet been posted and for my own record, I repeat the remarks below: Martin said... I am finding your reports on the so called EU Reform Treaty (Constitutional/Lisbon Treaty) most interesting and helpful. How, however, can you justify this statement: "The EU will continue to punch below its weight, but perhaps a little bit less so than presently. With the common foreign and security policy of the EU continuing within the sphere of intergovernmental cooperation, democratic scrutiny and accountability of the external action are going to be weak." The EU enforced, by this Treaty is a tyranny as defined by Karl Popper, lacking even a nod in the direction of democracy which allows periodic removal of the peoples' rulers by means other than the shedding of blood. The European Council President, High Representative and new politbureau the European Council itself have no democratic accountability whatever and all their activities will be secret. Democratic scrutiny, only possible in national parliaments is now being side-stepped. Efficiency and legal exactitude is naturally the enemy of democracy which is necessarily cumbersome and anything but efficient. As we see in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa, democracy once crushed is difficult (if not impossible) to quickly restore. Europe's contempt for democracy is noted across the world. Ignore the legal wording of the Treaty and consider the means of its being brought into effect and the disregard for the law in the early appointment of EU diplomats. The contempt for the law that is the real message from this process is obvious. Musharref first locked up the lawyers before suspending the citizens rights, such is not necessary within the morally bankrupt and lawless EU! 07 January 2008 09:41