do Tratado Reformador
(a ler: Majority wants EU treaty vote; EU Leaders Gather for Lisbon Summit; Como se discute pouco ou quase nada da substância do eventual tratado, temos distracções. Uma delas é o espectáculo da "operação de segurança".)
act.: Who are you going to call? What the new treaty, agreed upon in Lisbon, means for European foreign policy
THEY cannot both be right. For the Spanish prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the European Union treaty agreed in Lisbon in the early hours of Friday October 19th will “open new horizons” for the EU, finally giving the 27 member block the international profile it deserves.
But Gordon Brown, attending his first EU summit as Britain’s prime minister, had earlier announced that the new “reform treaty” was a modest piece of housekeeping, that merely tweaks the way decisions are taken after a dozen new members have been absorbed in the past few years. He called it clearly less significant than previous EU milestones such as the 1992 Maastricht treaty (which ushered in the single European currency).
Neither man, of course, is a neutral judge of the new treaty’s heft.
The Lisbon Coup: After two years of paralysis, European Union leaders have finally agreed on reforming the organization. The new Lisbon Treaty will allow the EU to stop its internal squabbling and concentrate on its real job -- serving the people of Europe.
EU Leaders Agree on Landmark Treaty: If the treaty is ratified by all member states, it will come into force in 2009.
