If they treat us like babies we may throw their EU pet toy out of pram

THEY cannot all be right. Last week, European heads of government rubber-stamped a new EU treaty almost identical to the constitution rejected two years ago by the French and the Dutch.

But having toasted their achievement with champagne, the 27 leaders began the task of selling the document in radically contradictory ways.

Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern was emphatic: whatever the “reasonably complex” treaty represents, it’s “not major change”. He attempted to depict the treaty, blithely, as just some minor revamping of the EU to make it “work a bit easier and better”.