WATER ABLAZE - Patagonia Sin Represas

Europe-wide. This move will bring the EU a step nearer to its goal: the
commercialisation of water resources.
While it may be right, and sometimes even necessary, to reach
multilateral and international agreements, individual member states
should not have to renounce their sovereignty – and with it their right
to self-determination – in the process. “Shared” competence of the
kind that the German Federal Constitutional Court is trying to explain
to us and justify at present is misleading because, in a democratic
country, citizens and their government must know for certain where
the decision-making powers lie. There is a lot to be said against this
gradual loss of sovereignty because genuine democracy, according to
the principle of subsidiarity, has to start at the lowest possible level of
executive organs.
The ratification of the Lisbon Treaty will have a huge impact on our
lives here in Europe because it robs individual member states of their
sovereignty and right to self-determination – and this to the greatest
extent imaginable! An absolutely outrageous state of affairs, since a
truly democratic country would never be able to cede its sovereignty
without the approval of its citizens. Democracy and the relinquishing of
sovereign rights are by nature mutually exclusive! Without this insight,
we are dooming ourselves and future generations to enslavement.
From the point of view of corporate interests, it may well be more
convenient for individual nations to lose their autonomy and be ruled
by institutions like the EU and the WTO. For citizens, however, it is
more beneficial if they themselves can determine their own fate and
that of their local water resources. These are issues which must be
settled – and settled they will be!
According to article 146, the German constitution can only be
annulled or replaced by a new constitution if this is the will of the
people. Since, however, existing EC and EU agreements, also known
as constitutional treaties, have created institutions higher up the legal
hierarchy than the German constitution – and which even run counter
to its rulings in decisive matters – an illegal dissolution of the German
constitution under article 146 has already taken place.
The EU lacks any real democratic legitimisation because it repre-
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