What changed in Europe today?
What changed today is that we have a pro-treaty momentum, because in the past, sixteen months ago, after the first Irish referendum, the momentum was for the ‘no’ side, with critical voices from the camps of Czech President Vclav Klaus, of Polish president Lech Kaczyński, or even from the German constitutional court. And there was also the Czech constitutional court, the ratification in the Czech parliament, both in the house and the Senate: in all those places one had to defend the legitimacy of the project. Right now, with the second positive Irish referendum, all these questions about legitimacy are left behind. The legitimacy has been confirmed, the people have spoken positively. And by doing so they eliminated the previous ‘no’, and with that, we are very close to finalisation of the ratification process. Two signatures are missing, though. Let’s start by what is seen as an easier case – the Polish president’s signature. What can we expect? In Poland indeed the situation is much e
