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<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">LISBON</st1:City></st1:place> TREATY : CYMRU RYDD’S Responds to RSF Recent Statement
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The Lisbon Treaty is a threat to all small nationals self determination. It is a threat to the very existence of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Wales</st1:country-region> and the Celtic lands of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region> so long persecuted by Anglo Saxon blood-lust. We fully agree with RSF opposition to this Treaty based on their statement:<o:p></o:p>
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“<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Lisbon</st1:City></st1:place> is another step in the centralisation process of the EU. It is admitted to being 96% the proposed EU Constitution which was rejected by the people of <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region> and of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Holland</st1:place></st1:City> in referendums.<o:p></o:p>
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Now it is back as a ‘Treaty’ with no referendums at all except in the 26-County State. There will be no commissioner for five out of every 15 years and 60 more policy areas will lose the veto which was there since 1973. <o:p></o:p>
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s say on the Council of Ministers will be doubled from 8% to 17%. <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region>’s weight in decision making will go from 8% to 13% and that of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region> jump by half.<o:p></o:p>
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It was a’ power grab’ by the big states for control of this new union. The voting weight of the State would be halved to just 1%.<o:p></o:p>
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The European Defence Agency was being pushed centre stage to promote the European Arms Industry and endanger neutrality more than ever. We were being involved in the ‘proxy wars’ of the bigger states such as <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region>’s defence of its interests in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chad</st1:place></st1:country-region>.”<o:p></o:p>
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