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If you love Europe then you want it to be based on democratic principles, not on the principles of unelected supranational bureaucrats. A Free Europe means allowing more diversity and freedom by ensuring that the 27 national parliaments and the peoples they represent hold real power over the governance of their countries and the single market in general.A free European area does not require full harmonisation of laws, for diversity and flexibility are crucial to social and economic progression. It does not need civil servants regulating the economy from Brussels, which can only lead to stagnation for economic planning does NOT work. It does not require centralised supranational bodies, like Europol, Eurojust or a European Public Prosecutor. Liaison and cooperation in such matters suffice. The EU does not need to become a single military power. Voluntary military alliances worked fine when Europeans fought eachother; they should work fine if a member state is threatened by forces outside the Union.The Lisbon Treaty establishes the Union as an interventionist power that seeks to police the world through force.A Union of Free States is only possible if no central authority is empowered to govern. Yet the Lisbon Treaty creates a new EU with a central authority that is not only empowered to govern the Union, but is also empowered to self-empower without the consent of the peoples of Europe. The Lisbon treaty is a self-amending treaty. When the EU Council desires, it is amended without EU summits, referendums or ratifications.That is a very dangerous form of power, as history has supposedly taught us. But are the people aware?Слава Eвропэйскому Союзу!Slava Yevropeyskomu Soyuzu!"There's something exciting in the air. A revolutionary spirit has erupted, and it will not be suppressed. We are involved in a historic event." - Ron Paul, Rally for the Republic, 3 September 2008