O Insurgente

Outubro 16, 2009

José Manuel Soprano

Filed under: Política,União Europeia — Miguel Noronha @ 10:56

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Having browbeaten Ireland into reversing its verdict on the Lisbon Treaty earlier this month, Brussels is now trying its Sopranos act on the Czech president, the last treaty hold-out. “It is in the interest of nobody, least of all the interests of the Czech Republic, to delay matters further,” Commission President José Manuel Barroso warned Vaclav Klaus, who refuses to sign the Treaty already passed by both houses of the Czech parliament. “If there is no Lisbon Treaty, there is no guarantee for the Czech Republic to have a commissioner,” he added. These sorts of veiled threats, though, seem only to harden the contrarian from Prague. (…) Mr. Barroso reminded Mr. Klaus that “good faith and loyal cooperation are principles of European law and international law.” But in a democracy, loyal opposition may be even more important than “loyal cooperation.” The Commission and Brussels are at their least attractive when painting all disagreement as disloyal to the Union. Mr. Barroso does himself and the institution he represents no favors by trying to strong arm yet another small country.

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