The treaty “does not transfer sovereignty to the EU … and there is no judicial reason to resort to a referendum,” Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Tuesday.

Rasmussen made his observations in relation to the latest of the series of treaties that have, over the past 50 years, progressively built a European Union that in fact, and in law, does indeed “transfer sovereignty to the EU.”

This latest, to many, unintelligible tome is labeled “The Lisbon Treaty” and was signed by the heads of all 27 EU nations Thursday in the Portuguese capital city of the same name.

The great lie that Rasmussen is either guilty of deliberately peddling, or, if we are to give the benefit of the doubt, is massively ignorant of its reality, is that the European Union is nothing other than an innocuous merry band of “united states of Europe,” innocently seeking the good of European citizens with no real objective other than doing away with those nasty nationalist tendencies that have ostensibly led Europe into extremely bloody conflict for the past two millennia.

Nothing could be farther from the truth.

The late Norris McWhirter, British patriot, and British political economist Rodney Atkinson proved the charge of treason against the British government in relation to an earlier EU treaty, the Maastricht Treaty, in 1992 (see Treason at Maastricht by Atkinson and McWhirter). Others have written most astutely drawing comparisons between the European Union’s agenda and that of the Holy Roman Empire of old.

Since Maastricht, the treaties of Amsterdam and Nice and the Berlin Declaration of 2006 have all endorsed the reality that this imperialist European Union is intent on doing away with sovereign national borders, just as it has served to replace the sovereign currency—the very badge of individual national sovereignty—of the 11 member nations of the European Monetary Union with the ubiquitous euro.

The Lisbon Treaty, designed to mask the true effects of the European Constitution, in fact further entrenches the imperialist goals of the European Union, and further diminishes the national sovereignty of its member nations.

There was one absentee at the signing ceremony, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Brown has been under pressure since taking over the prime ministry from Tony Blair, who recently stepped down from that post, to mount a referendum on signing the EU constitution under its guise as the Lisbon Treaty. Brown indicated that he had a scheduling conflict that prevented him from attending the signing ceremony. This may well have been a half-hearted gesture at recognizing he ought to maintain a low profile during the hoopla surrounding the Lisbon signing ceremony to placate at least partially the views of his electorate in Britain.

However, the prime minister signed the treaty later in the day, away from the glare of the media spotlight, so as to minimize the heartburn back home no doubt.

The bbc reported that Brown’s nonattendance at the official signing ceremony “has led to domestic accusations of a ‘semi-detached’ attitude to Europe” (December 12).

Keep watching for pressure to mount on the British prime minister as the European Union now advances its foreign-policy agenda—an agenda which the British public will increasingly see as being at odds with that of a sovereign, British democracy.