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Indeed, like every other election the EU has lost. Ignore the result.

Remind me how the Lisbon treaty was passed when it was known as the EI constitution?

Most voters didn’t get a chance to vote on the most fundamental change of their countries’ being.

The voters who did get to vote rejected it. Margins of 10% (France) And 20% (Holland).

So what did the EU do?

Cancel the referendums in Portugal and the UK to avoid further embarrassment.

Then they pretended to have won Brezhnev level margins and passed the constitution anyway.

That is how the Lisbon treaty was passed, right?



> That is how the Lisbon treaty was passed, right?

Nope


I mean, you are technically correct, in that the alterations to TFEU etc known as lisbon were different from the constitution that was rejected in France and the Netherlands.

However, the text was almost the same, and it was a dodge to remove the need for referendums in many EU countries.

Additionally, the Irish people voted twice on Lisbon, so it's not true that nobody in the EU got a vote.




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