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The Portuguese will not be voting on the European Treaty

Portuguese Prime Minister José Socrates announced on January 9th that he will be submitting the Lisbon Treaty to Parliament for ratification, thus dropping the idea of organising a referendum on the new European Treaty. The European press analyses the implications of this decision.

The Times - Wielka Brytania

Political commentators David Charter and Philip Webster point out that "the decision by Portugal not to hold a referendum but to ratify the treaty through its parliament will come as a huge relief to Downing Street and the Elysée Palace, which feared extra pressure on them to hold a public vote. The revelation of top-level phone calls will, though, only increase suspicions that the European political elite have coordinated efforts to avoid a repeat of the referendums in France and the Netherlands in 2005 that sank the proposed constitution and plunged the EU into a two-year crisis. ... As with Labour's last manifesto, Mr Socrates had promised a referendum on the EU constitution during election campaigning. ... The Portuguese move means that the Irish Republic, which has a tradition of public votes on big issues, remains the only country in the 27-member EU where a referendum will be held." (10/01/2008)

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Público - Portugalia

"The National pride with which the country carried out the Portuguese presidency of the EU lead to the absence of debate around the consequences of the Lisbon Treaty", considers Luís Menezes Leitão, a lawyer and university professor at the law faculty of the University of Lisbon (FDL). "The following question arises today: can you justify the fact that such an important step in European integration is to be taken on the basis of mere parliamentary ratifications, independently of European population ? If this is the case, the words of Thucydide that were quoted in the opening of the initial European Constitution prove rather ironic ('Our constitution ... has received the name of democracy, because democracy is the power of the greatest number and not that of a minority'). In today's Europe, power is in the hands of a minority and there is no desire to pass it on to the majority of citizens." (09/01/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Luís Menezes Leitão

Süddeutsche Zeitung - Niemcy

Portuguese Prime Minister José Socrates has broken his election promise of 2005 to hold a referendum on the EU constitution. But the paper finds this correct: "At the latest by the next parliamentary election in 2009 the matter will be long forgotten. Europe is not a subject that polarizes the Portuguese. But the news is incomparably more important for the EU partners. After all, the pressure on Socrates from Berlin, but even more from London and Paris, to hold off with the referendum option, fits with the logic of what led to the Treaty of Lisbon in the first place. A referendum in Portugal would have put pressure on all those governments elsewhere that try hard to avoid them, such as in Paris or The Hague. It would have been absurd if that very country which bore and gave its name to the EU treaty were to find itself in this pressuring role." (10/01/2008)

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Więcej z przeglądu prasy na temat » Konstytucja UE, » Portugalia

Neue Zürcher Zeitung - Szwajcaria

Lisbon correspondent Thomas Fischer regrets that the Portuguese won't have a chance to be heard on the EU Reform Treaty. "Portugal has never had a referendum on EU integration. By renouncing the referendum, the country gives up the opportunity to let the people themselves support this option before the money from Brussels runs out, cutting off one of the most popular and useful arguments for 'Europe.'" (10/01/2008)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Thomas Fischer

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