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    22 days ago

    The bloc is neoliberal by design, indeed it punishes member states which dare deviate from the neoliberal course.

    Even the major treaties which build the foundation of the EU were implemented by force, after the people of some member states voted against them in referendums they were simply signed and implemented anyway.

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        21 days ago

        To sum it up, the voters in France and Netherlands rejected the “Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe”. So what did the member states and unelected eurocrats in Brussels do? Repackage everything into the Treaty of Lisbon, which was approved by the voters of Ireland on the second try. No other member states offered a referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon.