Free Europe

"No referenda, please,

we are Europeans"

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Good Morning, Europe!

Background
The official proposal to a Constitutional Treaty for the European Union was rejected in referenda in France and the Netherlands. It could have opened the way for more centralization to Brussels.

Then
The 27 member governments agreed in Lisbon October 18, 2007 on a new version, called the Reform Treaty, renamed to the Lisbon Treaty - the same content but extremely difficult to read.Why? They wanted to avoid new referenda...

However, Ireland's constitution had to let the people decide, and the result in June 12, 2008 was NO.

But did the rest of the EU governments take NO for an answer? No...They went on asking the parliaments to ratify the Lisbon Treaty.

Remocracy

And Ireland? Of course, there was a new referendum, to get the correct result. Call it "remocracy".

Now

So the Lisbon Treaty is now in full force, from January 2010.

Future

But Free Europe Constitution does not give in. We will continue to be a part of the atmosphere of freedom in Europe. We believe that the Lisbon treaty is a grand mistake. However, history will judge.

But you can express your view already now - welcome to referendline at this site.

Make history.

Read Free Europe Constitution - and vote Yes.

This statement is history now, but not its message:

Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, to Carl-Johan Westholm, founder of the Free Europe Constitution, May 30, 2007:

- Your initiative is important in that it wants to change the public debate. I think this really has been one of the major problems - the agitation about the EU being in a perpetual motion and about the integration constantly "improved" by every new initiative.

- The ten principles included in your proposal of constitution are a good conceptual guide-line for the course European integration could take. It would be a good "mini-treaty".

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