Is the Lisbon Treaty Almost Reality Towards European Integration?

The Lisbon Treaty - the hope of Euro-supporters and the scorn of anti-Europeans is gaining more and more support and could become a reality in supplanting the individual European Nations' governments when it comes to legislation and democracy.

The German courts, based on a lawsuit from Euro skeptics, recently ruled that the Lisbon Treaty does not violate the German basic constitutional law (Grundgesetz) as long as the German parliament made adjustments at the national level to have more say, meaning, that the German politicians have to actively look at every legislation change instigated by the European Union.

The pro-Europeans, who were worried that this would have been a major blow should the court have ruled that the Lisbon Treaty be changed again, Germany being one of the most important hurdles, let out a sigh of relief. And if Germany needed changes in the Lisbon Treaty, then it was back to square one for all other countries and the Euro-skeptics could have been strengthened by the ruling.

Ireland and the Czech Republic are the last holdouts from the Lisbon Treaty, which has kept the treaty from ratification. Ireland won recent concessions for the treaty and the politicians in Ireland hope that the referendum will be approved by a majority in Ireland which had previously rejected the treaty in an earlier referendum. I think, the Irish are more ready now to vote FOR the treaty also based on their economic troubles that has engulfed the country since the financial crisis and the Irish are looking for new leadership from the European Union. The Czechs want the ratification but the conservative Czech Republic politicians who have been so far against the European Union are in a holding pattern to see what happens in other countries before they ratify it.

If that is indeed the case, the Lisbon Treaty is almost 'home'. This will also mean a slow, or even a fast transition of interest from the Europeans, all 500 Million plus, to look more towards the European elections rather than the national elections, and more and more politicians will then start to promote themselves for the European parliament.