Recent news from Poland and Ireland suggest that instead on focusing primarily on basic question of a loss of member state’s sovereignty as such public debate tends to bend towards rather unexpected issues such as abortion in Ireland or “gay-marriages” in Poland.

In that manner Danish MEP Jens Peter Bonde found himself accused by the Irish Independent that he suggested that “an Irish yes to the Lisbon Treaty would outlaw the Irish rules on abortion.” (A ‘yes’ may bring abortion changes, says MEP) Bonde had to reply and explain his position in a letter to the newspaper.

Similar distortion of focus is happening in Poland. According to the EUobserver the Kaczynski twins are threatening not to approve the EU’s Lisbon Treaty in the country’s parliament unless the ratification bill contains legal guarantees respecting Poland’s sovereignty and its constitution as the highest law in the country…. …And may you ask yourself why? ….Out of worries about gay marriage “being imposed” on the country…

Those unfamiliar with the true nature of the problem called The Renamed EU Constitution could find themselves a bit puzzled since the “Lisbon Treaty” is much more worrying in many other political aspects and it does not deserve to be reduced to the level of only moral or “procreational” debate. However these developments show at least that the borders of its influence upon our lives are far from being clearly limited.