When the 2004 EU Constitution was making its way toward ratification by all EU nations, French and Dutch voters issued a resounding No in referenda in their nations. Because acceptance by all nations is required, that killed the constitution. So the European world planners went back to the drawing board. In 2007 at a gathering in Lisbon, the leaders of the 27 EU nations produced a new document called the “EU Treaty.”

Treaty ratification has begun, and the British people were gearing up for the promised referendum in their country. But it won’t happen. The British parliament, heavily influenced by new Prime Minister Gordon Brown, told angry Britons, “If this was a constitutional treaty, we would hold the referendum. But the constitutional concept was abandoned.”

Former French President Giscard D’Estaing served as chairman of the group that created the rejected constitution. He has stated that “the difference between the original treaty and the present Lisbon Treaty is one of approach, not of content.” Italy’s former Prime Minister Giuliano Amato, D’Estaing’s vice chairman in creating the rejected constitution, says of the officials who created the new treaty, “They decided that the document should be unreadable” so it could be foisted on an unknowing public. Former Irish leader Garrett Fitzgerald approvingly referred to the new treaty as “virtual incomprehensibility.” And Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel supports the treaty because “the substance of the constitution is preserved.” So, the angry Brits have a right to demand that the promised referendum will occur. But it won’t.

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