DENMARK’S SUPREME COURT HAS permitted a group to sue the prime minister for allowing the parliament to adopt the Lisbon Treaty without a referendum.
Thirty-five people are taking the action on the basis that the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty breached the country’s constitution.
Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said today that the case would not change his view on the issue, but was a matter of whether the plaintiffs were right in their claim, according to Denmark’s Ekstra Bladet.
In December 2007, then-prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the country would not be voting on Lisbon, but it would instead by ratified by its MPs, the BBC reported. Read more …
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