CNN on Lisbon

[evercloserunion]

Some comic relief amidst all the drama.

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=CjIjCSbny98

[Twin Towers]

This is the way the whole world sees it. Democracy bypassed.

[PaintingMedium]

I love that graphic during the clip in really large font


[color=#FF0000][size=7]EUROPEAN TREATY[/size][/color]

I am surprised blood was not dripping from it!

[MacCoise]

political humour section please

[baldur0300]

Some comic relief amidst all the drama.

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=CjIjCSbny98

Is that FT at the start? Elites! Elites! Elites!!

[ibis]

"One thing is clear....European leaders want to set their own agenda, apart from American policy."

Well, that's pretty outrageous of them. I was shocked.

[FutureTaoiseach]

I don't fully agree with the report, but I agree with some of it. I don't necessarily believe the treaty will make the EU an anti-American body. But it will hand more power to unelected officials, and it is probably true that a secret deal was made to give Blair or someone else jobs in the Eurocracy in return for accepting the Treaty.

[mmclo]

But it will hand more power to unelected officials

Who, how...decisions are made by the directly eleced parliament and the council compossed of elected people

[baldur0300]

"One thing is clear....European leaders want to set their own agenda, apart from American policy."

Well, that's pretty outrageous of them. I was shocked.

Damn those uppity Europeans. Forming political unions not for the express benefit of the States is unamerican

[FutureTaoiseach]

But it will hand more power to unelected officials

Who, how...decisions are made by the directly eleced parliament and the council compossed of elected people

And the unelected Commission, the unelected European Public Prosecutor, the unelected President of the European Council, the unelected European Court of Justice, the unelected "specialised courts" the treaty empowers the Council to establish, the unelected High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the unelected External Action Agency and European Defence Agency etc.