Article: Portugal: Czech signs the Lisbon Treaty making European Union the world s super power.

Byline: Mamta03

Czech president, Vaclav Klaus, who has been highly skeptical of increasing the EU s powers, signed the Lisbon Treaty at the Prague today. Now that the ratification of the treaty is complete, the EU is becoming (or has become) the world's super power. In addition to the 27-member states of the EU today, the Mediterranean Union, 17 Middle Eastern states, will be integrated into the EU later this year, giving the EU 44-member states, a true force in global affairs. Libya's Colonel Khadafi said these 44-member states would be a revived Roman Empire, with the same borders of the old Roman Empire.

The European Union's Lisbon Treaty will enter ...

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