When Honourable Members of Parliament are ashamed to tell the people exactly what signing and ratifying this next (Constitutional) Treaty will have on them and what affect it will have on their country permanently, they know they are doing something wrong and also most likely in violation of their solemn oath of allegiance to their Queen (Crown) and Country.
It has to be remembered that the people in this Country's only referendum on EC membership were told that they were joining a Common Market for trade. We will work with the EU, we will have them as our friends but we will not be ruled by them any longer, especially under the false pretences we are being presented with by our own politicians.
Transfer of sovereignty over Justice and Home Affairs, over our seas and oceans to the Union is a complete betrayal of the people and future generation. To place the defence and national security of this Country into foreign hands is an opt out of responsibility on a massive scale.

Anne Palmer, West Midlands, England

Stuart, not 'reforming' the CAP, but abolishing it. It needs to be abolished ASAP. And the CFP (Fisheries) too. They are monstrosities.

I too wonder where they (EU) keep getting these 'demands' for 'more Europe' and all that. The EUbarometer (polling organization) is notoriously unreliable. Do they poll Brussels only?

I for one stand totally against any form of federalization.

Marcel, The Hague, Netherlands

The EU report says that: "At the same time, there is a very strong demand for the Union to increase its efficiency, to enhance its democratic functioning and to improve the coherence of its external action.". This maybe a strong demand amongst some of the political elite, but I challenge Mrs Merkel to find any man or woman on the streets of Europe articulating this. What she would instead hear is that the EU should make effective the things that are already there before starting on anything new. A few ideas would include: completing the internal market, allowing the free trade in services, reforming the CAP and opening the EU market to the desperate farmers of the third world.

Stuart Sinclair, Malaga, Spain