Posted on 08/14/2010 8:34:19 AM PDT by parisa
James Kirkup and Robert Winnett’s excellent piece for The Telegraph should be the first item the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary read this morning. The article is important because it reveals in stark terms exactly what the Treaty of Lisbon is all about in the minds of the unelected Brussels elites – a golden opportunity to dramatically expand the supranational powers of the EU over the affairs of independent European nation states, including that of Great Britain.
The Telegraph article records the views of the EU’s newly installed Ambassador to the United States, Joao Vale de Almeida, who now claims to be “leading the show” in Washington, with seemingly scant regard for the presence of the 27 Ambassadors from individual European countries. Mr. Vale de Almeida is a former chief of staff to European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and just happens to be a fellow Portuguese citizen. He is the first EU Ambassador to be appointed in the Lisbon era, and is already throwing his weight around inside the Washington Beltway with the eurofederalist zeal of a junior Jacques Delors.
As The Telegraph reports:
Mr Vale de Almeida has stressed to Washington officials and politicians that under the EU’s’ Lisbon Treaty, he has more power than his predecessors. “I’m the first new type of ambassador for the European Union anywhere in the world,” he said. “I’m supposed to have a wider mandate than my predecessors.” Mr Vale de Almeida said: “Our delegations now cover a wide spectrum of issues well beyond the economic dimension, trade dimension and regulatory dimension, to cover all policies in the union, including foreign policy and security policy.”
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
And this was unexpected?
Good Lord - the anti-EU crowd stated repeatedly that this would happen — so, you got want you voted for!
If I were PM, not only would I not answer the US Hot-line, I'd turn the ringer off.
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