“(About the Lisbon Treaty): Small Member-States will inevitably be marginalised. The bigger states will not need to listen to their arguments as they did in the past.”

— Declan Ganley

Source: The Fight for Democracy – The Libertas Voice in Europe. (2009), p. 41

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