The EU doesn’t usually shy away from landmark celebrations. But one notable date passed almost unnoticed in Brussels this week as the ten-year anniversary of the signing of the Lisbon Treaty came and went.
No official ceremony was held. No pro-EU gushing from the most reliable of EU federalists. Not even any faint murmurs of nostalgia for what was probably the most radical of the EU treaties to date.
A sense of embarrassment appears to have built up around this Treaty, and the decade since it was signed has been a tumultuous one. From the failings of the euro to the EU’s …read more
Source: CapX