Lisbon: binding legal document needs no quotation marks

MAUREEN O’Donnell’s misconceptions on the Lisbon guarantees and her reckless casting of Angela Merkel as a modern-day Hitler (Letters, September 7) cannot be left unchecked.

Using the old quotation marks trick, she calls into question the status of this “binding legal document”.

However, the guarantees are not a “binding legal document”, they are a binding legal document. They represent a formal agreement, signed by the heads of state or government of 27 countries, which has been deposited with the UN. It doesn’t get much more binding when it comes to the legality of an international accord.