En mi país, se dijo a la gente que el Tratado de Lisboa era tan diferente de la Constitución Europea que ya no justificaba un referéndum y, sin embargo, la única diferencia sustantiva que he podido encontrar entre la Constitución y el Tratado de Lisboa es la supresión de las marcas de condición de Estado.
In my country, the people were told that the Lisbon Treaty was so different from the European Constitution that it was no longer justified to have a referendum, and yet the only substantive difference that I can find between the Constitution and the Lisbon Treaty is the removal of these trappings of statehood.