Hey there,

this is a complicated matter indeed. To start of, it's quite ridiculous to even attempt to expect anyone to read a 300 page long treaty. I doubt anybody not involved in the creation did ever read it top to bottom. Bad tongues could now say that they never intended anyone to read it... but let's stay on the facts.

I assume that the reflections from the Italian Posters have at least some point: The EU trying to smuggle in the treaty past people. If I remember correctly, the french rejected this treaty before it was reworked and I find it plainly interesting that the french don't get any chance to vote again. Back then it was still called the european constitution ...

We definitely are not talking about peanuts here, if I understand it right, then the lisabon treaty will de-facto glue the states inside the european union together like it wasn't ever before... I find it quite disturbing that in some countries (including mine) there isn't even a survey amongst the people to determine whether there is even remote support... but then that's the problem of country in question.

In any way, I have to agree that going tiny steps would definitely been received better amongst the population of all countries and probably would have led to ireland voting yes... but this 'stealth' tactics the EU and the governments are using.. really makes you think.