EU plans yet another illegality.

The Irish Times carries a report that including the Irish guarantees (that , inter alia, will make a nonsense of the streamlining ambitions for the Constitutional/Reform/Lisbon Treaty ) into the Croatian Accession Treaty will be most likely illegal and open to court challenge. Read here. An interesting article on the disarray in Europe issued by Yale University to mark today's G20 meeting may be read from here and is introduced as follows: At a time when the EU needs to present a united voice if not in policy, at least in speech, at the G-20 summit, the union is in chaos. In the second article of this three-part series on the G-20 Summit and the Future of Capitalism, professor of International Political Economy, Jean-Pierre Lehmann points to the unfortunate coincidence of Europe’s faltering unity at a time when it is needed the most. Lame duck leaders, protectionism, and stalled initiatives are only some of the issues that currently plague the EU and will impede producing any substantive outcome at the summit. While narrow nationalistic concerns and protectionist tendencies among members are not new to the EU, at such a critical juncture in the evolving global financial crisis, disarray and disunity will add more hurdles to addressing a concerted response to the crisis. Ultimately, at a time when Europe needs to project stability and clarity on the world stage, it is instead projecting confusion and discord. – YaleGlobal