” ” ” “"Deciding to go on without stopping with the ratifications explained Amato means making the Irish understand that they should not rely on any amendment to the Treaty. ‘We’ll see to that after October’ is a nice way to tell them: ‘we’ll give you time to reflect and outline a process towards a solution". "The current treaties he added do not provide for the possibility to back out of Europe and need to be ratified. The right to withdraw is provided for by the Lisbon Treaty, the same document that paradoxically has been defeated by the Irish referendum". "Europe actually remains an abstract thing for most citizens admits the statesman -. On the TVs of the different countries, the EU is only seen through their own national leaders, not through the European leaders, but now the European decisions that affect our life are beginning to be really very many and we cannot back out. Indeed, starting from such issues as climate, energy, security, defence, we should entrust Brussels with more and more decisions"; that’s why "the EU institutions should be more widely legitimated in the citizens’ eyes"; to do this, Brussels’ leaders "should start to show up their faces and defend the decisions taken there".
