‘No’ campaigners won’t get a walkover next time

THOSE who are concerned with the absence of ‘Christian values’ in the Lisbon Treaty would do well to remember that Hitler and his Nazis were purported Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, while the Czar of Russia, deposed in the revolution of 1917, was another whose ‘Christianity’ did little to benefit the serfs.

The 20th century saw the most horrendous crimes against humanity devised and implemented by alleged Christians.

However, Christianity in its real and positive sense is at the core of the European project without having to be spelled out in capitals in a treaty.