We can but hope that a United States of Europe, remains only a daydream to those powers who have promoted the Treaty, because were it not to, and were a federal state to come into being, this could only mean one thing: the final elimination of the sovereignty of Europe’s smaller nations, by its larger Western ones.

But it is a disgrace also, because it has been the great and supposed defenders of democracy, who have so compelled the Treaty's trans-European acceptance in an entirely anti-democratic manner. Leaving out of course, the European electorate in the process; and placing the decision in the hands of an infinitely corruptible political elite. Where nations were included in the process – in say Ireland – votes were to be conducted until the desired result was achieved. A brave new world...

But to my mind this isn’t the most offensive part of this story. My most bitter feelings are, naturally, reserved for Hungary’s role in this farce. In my opinion all the countries of Europe emerge as losers from this Treaty, promoted as it is by large international interests. Yet only one nation emerges not only at a loss from it, but also as a victim of it. Our own. The Lisbon Treaty was signed on 13th December 2007, a move which resulted in the thrusting of the whole continent into partisan political conflict.

Everywhere enormous discussions resulted, there were proposals, presidential interventions, deep scrutiny by constitutional courts, demonstrations etc. Yet with us? Our respected members of parliament, operating in total unanimity between Fidesz and the MSZP (325 votes for, to 5 votes against), and without even deigning to read it: ratified the Treaty on December the 17th. They were the first in Europe to do so.

The Lisbon Treaty could only come in to force, if each member state ratified it. So the frustrating potentiality of a nation vetoing it, allowed for each country to fight for its own interests during the course of discussions; to receive allowances, and exceptional treatment in those areas of special interest to it. Naturally everybody did this, which is why the battle for the Treaty took the whole of Europe two years to complete.

Instead of the two years for everyone else, three days were apparently sufficient for us; with no battle involved whatsoever... And yet how many things could have been achieved in return for our giving Europe this assent! In how many things does Europe owe us dearly? Nevertheless Gyurcsány and Orbán voted in unison. Of course no-one would have expected anything else from Gyurcsány. After his Öszöd speech he was desperate to garner brownie points from the EU. But why did Orbán agree also? Most probably for exactly the same reason.

It is this, which was quite simply outrageous; and amounts to little more than treason. Certainly, the Treaty was disadvantageous to our country from a number of perspectives, which should have been subject to debate. But that our politicians chose suddenly, and entirely unrequested, to deprive their country of having a much needed Ace up its sleeve, should it need to negotiate with Brussels on matters of importance to it: is utterly inexcusable.

Our national parliamentary parties once again proved themselves, to in fact be, multi-national parties. That is, when faced with a question, in which national interests came into conflict with international ones, they chose, from calculation, from cowardice, or from both, to position themselves alongside international interests once more. Their minds, constantly obsessed with what Washington might say, or what Brussels might think, never bother to concern themselves with how the Hungarian nation might feel.

If the Czech or the Polish President had the nerve to hold the whole of Europe to ransom, why did ours not? If, as a result, the Czechs and Poles were able to secure for themselves exemptions from the implementation of the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights; then why did ours ask for nothing? And the most saddening thing of all, is that while our own leaders from the MSZP and Fidesz consented to the worst possible political one-night stand, for little more than flattery (like cheap hussies, as the common man would say); every other country extracted a high price for receiving as little as a peck on the cheek.

And the fact that the Czechs and the Poles were party to preferential treatment, in my opinion constitutes a new legal set of circumstances. We were not signatories to the same document they were. Herein would lie the opportunity, for the Hungarian government to re-open negotiations, and as a result extract something for itself from Brussels – autonomy for the Hungarian communities beyond our borders. The abolition of the Beneš decrees, a renegotiation of the agricultural chapter, the removal of Hungarian arable land from the threat it faces from the forces of global finance etc.

Of course we know, that they won’t lift a finger. But everyone may also be equally certain, that we most certainly will. Jobbik will re-open the matter of the Lisbon Treaty, because it has been anti-democratically imposed onto the nations of Europe. Because in Hungary an anti-democratic elite, through anti-democratic means, ratified it unread, without even bothering to ask the people. And in ratifying it, they have written themselves out of Hungary’s future.

Jobbik President