EU Foreign Policy muddle

Reuters has a good insight into the Foreign Policy mess already developing within the EU even before ratification of the so-called Reform Treaty. This version appears in the Kuwait Times. In the interests of balance you may also read a positive offering from the Polish Foreign Minister, linked here. In the real world the driving imperative remains to find one or more parliaments willing to ditch this dreadful Treaty and give Europe a chance to restore democracy. This section from the Executive Intelligence Review, linked yesterday and again here, gives some hope such a Parliament might be in Austria, the ousting of the Cyprus president in the first round of elections yesterday show that politicselsewhere are also in a state of flux. All signatories of the Lisbon Treaty deserve urgent ousting! The promised quote:

The Loss of Sovereignty

I have found some highly interesting writings in Austria, where there is a giant debate going on, because of course this treaty is in a sense in still greater contradiction with the Austrian Constitution, because of its neutrality clause. There there is one piece written by Prof. Hans Klecatasky, who is one of the fathers of the Austrian Constitution, and former justice minister of Austria; on Dec. 19, [2007]—six days after the Treaty of Lisbon had been decided upon-he commented as follows: "The Republic of Austria, with its Federal Constitution, is turned into a subdivision of the legal body of the EU. The coordination of both constitutions is replaced definitively by subjugation, submission, and hence by the dissolution of the republic into a European Union. Member-states lose the substance of their existential statehood and turn into merely regional administrative bodies."

The same applies of course to Germany, which basically gave up its own statehood long ago through this treaty; while the words "Federal State" are simply avoided in this European Treaty, it is already de facto the case. This is just semantics, with which an attempt is made to say that Germany's Basic Law [Constitution] would not have to be changed, although in reality it is a complete change of the Basic law.

According to the Basic Law, all power is derived from the people; this no longer applies, but rather it is now with the EU, effective immediately, once the treaty is ratified and adopted. And even our former Federal President Roman Herzog wrote in Welt am Sontag a year ago on Jan. 14, that if this document is implemented, Germany would no longer be a parliamentary democracy, and he therefore favored rejecting the treaty.