The Scotsman argues with this blog - Lisbon is now Invalid

The article confirming what this blog has been trumpeting for days, namely that the agreement at last week's EU Council invalidates the earlier ratification of the Lisbon Treaty by all the other nation states up to this date is titled:

Avenue de Beaulieu: The View from Europe

It is linked from here and begins with the following:

Published Date: 16 December 2008

HERE is a conundrum. How is it possible for the Lisbon Treaty to be modified substantially – so it can be accepted by the Irish – without the rest of the European Union's members having the right to re-ratify what will then be a changed document?

Declan Ganley, the man behind the Irish No vote last June, thought this legal contradiction was a treaty killer. "Not a jot or title – not a comma – of the text of Lisbon can be changed, for otherwise it would be legally a new treaty ...................................." That statement is an unarguable fact, any EU-wide fudge which might emerge would have no legal substance in any impartial system! Somewhere within the national legal jurisdiction of one of the countries of the EU such a FACT will be upheld!