EU Treaty of Lisbon

I had been intending to write about the June 12 Irish referendum rejecting the proposed next step of EU integration, the Treaty of Lisbon. But then I found this short analysis by Theodore Dalrymple in City Journal that says it all - so you get to read his prose instead.

Dalrymple expects that the European political elite will not let the Irish vote come in the way of progress. (When the Irish voted against the previous Treaty of Nice, they were told to vote again until they got it right. They did.) He warns, however, that if the elite continues to ignore the wishes of the electorate, "tensions and frustrations in Europe have a history of expressing themselves in nasty ways."