Paris – The European Union’s Lisbon treaty was initially greeted with enthusiasm, pride, and even hubris. It promised a more realistic and reasonable way forward than the ill-fated constitutional treaty that it replaced, and many of its supporters also hoped that a central feature of its predecessor – the notion of “constitutional patriotism” – was still alive.
巴黎—起初人们用热忱、自豪甚至是骄傲来欢迎欧盟的 《里斯本条约》 。它承诺了一条比它所取代的、命运多舛的《宪法条约》更为现实合理的前进道路。许多它的支持者也希望其前身的核心特点—“ 宪政 爱国主义”的理念—仍然鲜活。但《里斯本条约》却给欧盟带来了混乱。问题出在哪里？