Walesa: Yes vote crucial for European security

PASSING the Lisbon Treaty is crucial to continued peace, security, and progress in the EU, former Polish president and solidarity trade union leader Lech Walesa has said.

Mr Walesa, famed for his role in leading the fight against communism in Poland in the early 1980s, said Europe could not tackle major problems if it was not united. “We have defeated the Nazis and we have defeated the communist system,” a passionate Mr Walesa said through a translator.

“We will continue defeating other injustices that still occur in life, but we can do it only once we are all united. So let us all be united for that purpose and let us try to adopt this treaty and then improve it if it requires improvement.”