WATER ABLAZE - Patagonia Sin Represas

This document of ratification will be deposited in Rome along with
all the other treaties relating to the various stages of the “European
Community”, including all amendments and follow-up agreements.
The so-called Lisbon Treaty or Reform Treaty is now due to come
into force on December 1, 2009, creating a situation entirely without
historical precedent! Never before have so many states handed over
so much power to a supranational institution without the consent of
the people! Viewed in the light of democratic principles, this whole
procedure can only be classified as unlawful.
The unconstitutional transfer of national sovereignty to the EU,
a supranational institution whose standards do not even come up to
those of the majority of its member states regarding the separation of
powers, has led to this enormous democracy deficit. Under German
constitutional law, the transfer of sovereign rights or even the actual
dissolution of the Federal Republic of Germany and its constitution
would only be possible if this were the express will of the people.51
When all is said and done, neither the wording nor any interpretation
of the constitution should influence our assessment of this practice.
The very principle of democracy is reduced to absurdity when elected
politicians hand over the power entrusted to them to third parties
without public consent, thereby depriving the true sovereign, the
people, of its freedom to decide for itself. The lack of democracy within
the EU is conspicuous, and EU bureaucracy is becoming more and
more self-important and expensive, providing a suitable environment
for “bribery and corruption”. 52 The real wirepullers and powers
behind the scenes, apart from the political elite, are the lobbyists
of the big corporations. More than 15,000 of them are accredited in
Brussels; they have almost unrestricted access to the EU head office
and their concepts are allowed to flow unhindered into laws and
guidelines.53 When the Lisbon Treaty takes effect, it will make it easier
for corporations to push through their interests via EU policies because
neoliberal free trade will have been granted constitutional status.
EU jurisdiction, to which all member states are bound, affects our
water, too. On January 11, 2005, the European Court of Justice ruled
in a judgement principle that, as soon as the private sector becomes
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