Soverign European Countries Died 5 Nov 2009
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Today the Magna Carta Ended. Hope you all enjoy the Fema Camps.
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Czech president signs EU reform treaty
PRAGUE A charter designed to transform the 27 countries and half a billion people of the European Union into a more unified and powerful global player has passed its last major hurdle and looks set to become law within weeks.
Once that happens, the Lisbon Treaty will allow more policy decisions by majority rather than unanimous votes at European summits. Those policies would then increasingly be shaped by the elected parliaments of each nation and the European Parliament, which currently has little say.
EU leaders say such new voting rules are needed to promote stronger policies in combating cross-border crime, terrorism and ecological threats.
Projecting this more decisive EU abroad would be the role of a new fixed-term president — in place of a decades-old system that rotates the presidency among governments every six months — and a new foreign minister.
That all became possible when Czech President Vaclav Klaus, who has been highly skeptical of increasing the EU's powers, signed the Lisbon Treaty at the Prague Castle on Tuesday, hours after his nation's Constitutional Court struck down a complaint against it.
Klaus has been tirelessly attacking and stalling the document, claiming it would hand too much power to European Union institutions in Brussels. He was awaiting the Brno-based court's ruling before deciding whether to endorse it.
"I expected the decision of the Constitutional Court and respect it," Klaus told reporters Tuesday afternoon, but added he vehemently disagrees with the verdict.
"The Czech Republic will cease to be a sovereign state," once the treaty enters into force, he said.
Klaus was the last obstacle to the full ratification of the treaty, which was bogged down in negotiations for almost a decade and has been ratified by all other 26 EU nations.
The Swedish EU Presidency said the treaty will enter into force on Dec. 1.
