Subtitle: Poles blew it

Based on today’s decision in the Polish Seym one can paraphrase: “You can’t ratify the Renamed EU Constitution and keep your own Constitution legally above it.” This simply won’t work but only time will tell. Well not just time - in near future top lawyers will have to explain clearly to Poles, to Germans (when they decide to repeat their own legal case) and finally to all other Europeans the true legal nature of the “Mother of all EU Treaties”.

Here is the parliamentary resolution in Polish which serves as an appendix to the act of ratification itself. When properly translated in other European languages it will show that in fact Poles have not ratified quite the same text as the six EU member-states before them. But as said before time and lawyers will tell…

Polish leadership evaded the perils of holding a referendum although they repeatedly boasted with 70% support within the electorate. The opposition struck a deal and stopped making “the unnecessary chaos” but what they actually did was to transpose the same “chaos” to the EU level. From now on all national leaders will have to explain to their respective electorates why the Poles did what they did. Too many cooks already spoiled the broth.

However let’s return to our scoreboard. With 384 MPs in favour, 56 against and 12 abstained the graph of our “Democratic Lisbon Deficit” now looks like this: