Hillary Clinton backs a European superstate
London Telegraph (Blog) >> Originally Posted 23rd March 2009
Further confirmation that the Obama Administration is wholeheartedly backing the European Project is provided by Hillary Clinton in an interview with the Irish Times over the weekend. In her interview, the Secretary of State expressed her support for key provisions in the Treaty of Lisbon – a rehash of the old European Constitution – including a European Union foreign minister:
“I think there would be advantages in having an interlocutor who represented decisions taken by the EU. It wouldn’t in any way eliminate the bilateral relations which the United States pursues with individual countries but on a number of matters, the EU being organized in that way could facilitate decisions.”
“I believe [political integration is] in Europe’s interest and I believe that is in the United States’ interest because we want a strong Europe .”
The Obama Administration is the first U.S. administration to give its unequivocal support to the notion of ever-closer union in Europe. Needless to say, Mrs. Clinton made no mention at all of the fact that Irish voters emphatically rejected the Treaty in a referendum last year, and the rest of the people of Europe haven’t been given the democratic right to vote on it at all.