What an interesting Facebook thought!

Along with these explanations:

One million European citizens can call on the European Commission to propose a change in European law!

EU Directives and European Court of Justice decisions are used to attack trade union collective bargaining, the right to strike and workers’ pay and conditions.

Workers must simply defend the fundamental right to work under union agreements – a right not given by EU directives or treaties.

EU rules allow employers to escape from national collective bargaining and employment legislation and impose lower wages and worse working conditions, creating a “race to the bottom”.

The Lisbon Treaty turns the EU into a state in its own right and gives the bloc its own legal identity. The unaccountable European Court of Justice, an EU institution, would effectively become the ‘supreme court’ of the EU.

Under the treaty, the unelected EU commission would propose all EU law which would then be imposed on member states by the council of ministers mostly on the basis of qualified majority voting.

Under Article III-147 of the EU Constitution: “A European framework law shall establish measures to achieve the liberalisation of a specific service”. That provision remains in the Lisbon Treaty. In other words the treaty forces governments to hand public services over to private corporations.

The parliament has no legislative powers powers and it is bound by all the treaties, including the Lisbon Treaty if it comes into force. All that self-serving and well-heeled political elites just serves the EU institutions which impose laws on over 500 million European citizens without their consent.

The euro is controlled by the European Central Bank (ECB) which dictates interest and exchange rates. These are two key levers which should instead be used by national governments to control their economies. By obeying the strict criteria of the euro considerable damage has been done to the public sector. Control of economies in the eurozone is exercised by the EU Commission, Council of Ministers and ECB directly over national interests. The crisis is being used as an excuse to press for complete ratification of the Lisbon Treaty which would impose the euro on all member states.

The Lisbon Treaty develops an armed wing for the EU, complete with its own military-industrial complex. For Brussels this means developing an EU rapid reaction force that will carry out military operations in the interests of “Europe”. The constitution will demand that member states “actively, unreservedly and loyally” support a single foreign and military policy. The Lisbon Treaty also formally ends the military neutrality of Ireland, Denmark, Sweden and Austria, also without asking the citizens of those states.

European Union is accumulating a vast range of powers that pose a threat to civil liberties. The Lisbon Treaty will continue this process by expanding the role of EU police force, Europol, whose agents have been granted immunity from prosecution.

EU directives give state agencies the right to monitor all electronic traffic including data relating to e-mails and websites we visit, without a court order.

These and other measures, taken together with the completely undemocratic structure of the EU, means that a system of Brussels-based government is taking shape which represents a huge threat to the basic freedoms of ordinary Europeans.

These, and a million other reasons, are why countries should leave the European Union…

…by you joining the fb group, apparently.

And do tell your friends to do the same, please :)