Lisbon Treaty made to avoid referendum, says Giscard
By Helena Spongenberg
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU's new treaty is the same as the
rejected constitution - only the format has been changed to avoid
referendums, says Valery Giscard d'Estaing, architect of the
constitution.
In an open letter published in Le Monde and a few other European
newspapers over the weekend, the former French president seeks to
clarify the difference between [the] former draft constitution -
which was shelved after French and Dutch voters rejected the text in
2005 - and the new Lisbon Treaty which EU leaders agreed earlier this
month.
"Looking at the content, the result is that the institutional
proposals of the constitutional treaty . are found complete in the
Lisbon Treaty, only in a different order and inserted in former
treaties," Mr Giscard d'Estaing said.
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