What the Lisbon Treaty means

Professor of Public Law in Germany, Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider argues that if the Lisbon Treaty is to come into force via ratification by the Member States after the precedent signing by the Heads of States and governments and their foreign secretaries, the peoples of the Union will
irrecoverably wave goodbye to the fundamental constitutional principles that form the basis of their political culture. European integration will destroy the principles of the constitutional state which have been widely taken as guiding political principles since the Enlightenment.

European Foundation, No Vol.15, No.6, July 2008 http://www.europeanfoundation.org/docs/July%202008.pdf

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