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Lisbon Treaty: Vlaams Belang Pleased About Rejection by the Irish Voters
06/13/2008 :: The first referendum results make it clear that the Irish have rejected the Treaty of Lisbon.
Vlaams Belang is very pleased about the result of the Irish referendum. The strategy to render the rejected European Constitution unreadable and to adopt it under a new name has miserably failed.
The result of the referendum again illustrates the enormous gap between, on the one hand, the established political and journalistic elite, and, on the other hand, public opinion. Nearly all political parties, trade unions, newspapers and television channels have unconditionally supported the Treaty of Lisbon. This political class has unsuccessfully tried to frighten the electorate, by referring, among other things, to the barely veiled threat by the president of the European Commission that in case of a no vote "the European Union, but most of all Ireland will have to pay a price".
The Treaty of Lisbon is dead. The European Union has to respect the democratic verdict from the Irish voters. Each attempt to introduce the treaty by way of other means is an insult to democracy. No other member state has dared to take the risk to submit the text to the voters.
Evidently the Flemish Parliament may no longer approve the treaty and Belgium has to stop the ratification process.
The European Union must definitely bury the European Constitution, regardless of the name, and work out a new treaty that fully takes into account the sighs and wishes of the Europeans: less European interference, more transparency, more democracy.
Bruno Valkeniers
President of the Vlaams Belang
Philip Claeys, MEP
Frank Vanhecke, MEP
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