Lisbon Treaty Vote Clears Path for E.U. President

New York Times
"Olivier Ferrand, president of Terra-Nova, a center-left research institute based in Paris, said that the decision is a landmark. “The Lisbon Treaty is the first step from a technocratic Europe to a political Europe,” he said. “We have had this idea ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall and for two decades we have been struggling with it.”