Public misled over true nature of Lisbon treaty

GAY MITCHELL accused Libertas (Letters, April 1) of misleading the public about the Lisbon treaty — yet he has not a word to say about the mass deception involved in the treaty itself.

Former French prime minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing is on record as saying the explicit intention of the architects of the treaty was to mislead the public: “Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly.”

Almost the entire content of the earlier rejected European constitutional treaty has been preserved through the so-called treaty of Lisbon, although small, cosmetic changes have taken place