The Lisbon Treaty?

[the last donut of the night]

The Lisbon Treaty has been discussed here on RevLeft. Since I don't live in Europe, I don't know too much about it. Could you guys explain? Also, could you also tell me how the Left relates to the E.U?

Thanks.

P.S: Sorry if I put this in the wrong forum. It might be in Politics instead of Learning.

[Pirate Utopian]

First the European Union wanted to make a European constitution.
It required the participation of all EU countries.

Referendums in the Netherlands, France and Ireland all voted it away.

So they renamed it and made sure not to give people referendums to vote it away again.
Luckily the Irish constitution says all international accords must be approved in a referendum first.
They voted it off.

But the persistent buggers keep pushing their globalist sceme until Europe swallows it.
And sadly I hear it worked.

[the last donut of the night]

But is the constitution some form of neo-liberal tool?

[Revy]

It is a centralization of EU authority alongside political , economic and even military lines....
However, nationalism is not an acceptable alternative.

[Q]

Here are some articles that explain our opposition towards Lisbon:

The guarantees change nothing (http://www.joehiggins.eu/2009/06/lisbon-round-two-a-bosses-charter-with-or-without-guarantees/)
Lisbon pushes Privatisation (http://www.joehiggins.eu/2008/03/lisbon-treaty-pushes-privatisation-agenda/)
Lisbon means more Militarisation (http://www.joehiggins.eu/2009/05/joe-higgins-eu-guarantees-dont-change-the-militarisation-in-lisbon/)
Lisbon is bad for workers' rights (http://www.joehiggins.eu/2009/09/lisbon-workers-rights/)

Also a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgN67dWv2Uk