European Parliament connives in refusing Treaty Draft

The following report is from the opening of this week's plenary session, linked here: Request for postponement of vote on Lisbon Treaty rejected For the IND/DEM group, Jens-Peter Bonde (DK) proposed that the vote on the Lisbon Treaty, scheduled to follow Wednesday's debate, be postponed to a later session since a full consolidated version of the treaties was not available for MEPs to consult. The House voted by 220 votes to 24, with 11 abstentions, against this request, after hearing from rapporteur Richard Corbett (PES, UK) that the vote was not on theconsolidated treaties but on the Lisbon Treaty. The affront to democracy being perpetrated in every parliament of the twenty-seven member states is now brazenly evident and trumpeted in the body supposedly to become the main protector of democracy. Look at the voting numbers refusing to provide an official version of the terms destroying national parliamentary democracy 220 votes to 24