Elected by the people of Portugal but beholden to the leaders of other countries. This is the reality for Portuguese Prime Minister, José Sócrates, who has been pressured by Gordon Brown and France's future Mr Carla Bruni not to hold a promised referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, but to ratify the agreement through the Portuguese parliament...
Posted on The Waendel Journal.
Thursday 10 January 2008
This is Europe José, not a democracy