[news] Irish People Issue Setback to Elite Plans for a Corporate European Superstate

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

By Mike Whitney - 14/06/08

Ireland delivered a knockout punch to European elites and corporatists and shattered their plan for a...[European Union] Superstate. The so-called Lisbon Treaty was nothing more than a repackaging of the European Constitution that was defeated by French and Dutch voters in 2005. The treaty was loaded with the typical "democratic" gobbledygook to conceal the vicious neoliberal policies at its heart. If it had passed, the treaty would have paved the way for greater privatization of public services, diminished workers rights, less state control over trade policies and civil liberties, and an aggressive plan to militarize Europe.  


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