EU leaders renege on treaty vote promise

THERE is a lack of integrity in the way the Lisbon Treaty is being imposed on all individual Europeans.

It has been admitted by many treaty supporters — for example, former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern — that the treaty is 90% the same as the proposed constitution which was rejected by France and the Netherlands.

However, the leaders of the European project, to a man, have decided to renege on their promise to hold referenda in the other member states and are therefore ignoring the wishes of their people.