EU Openness - You must be joking!

Grahnlaw begins his latest posting on the detail of the abhorrent EU Constitutional/Reform/Lisbon Treaty as follows: It looks like a contradiction in terms: The intergovernmental conference, in secret, produces inaccessible amending treaties for the European Union, but meant to improve good governance, legislation in public, the participation of civil society, as well as openness and transparency. The Council then refuses to publish readable, consolidated versions of the Lisbon Treaty, to further underline the chasm between principles and practices. Whatever it is, I fear European leaders even when they bring gifts. Read the full comment from this link. Mr Grahn ends his detailed analysis with this pithy observation: After all the self-congratulatory words by EU notables on the Lisbon Treaty, I prefer to ruminate on the vote this week of the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT) not to publish even a censored version of the internal audit report on a sample of MEPs’ expenses. One explanation for this outrage has been that if released the innocent might also be stained, this is such nonsense as to be unworthy argument from a seven year old - only by publicly naming and punishing ALL the guilty can any MEP be subsequently viewed with anything other than the greatest possible suspicion. Don't miss the link to Bruno Waterfield from the posting below of last evening on a similar topic.