Update: since I pointed out the egregious mistake on the FCO website as below, the error has been corrected. Glad to see that someone is reading this blog with an eagle eye. But I’ve left the original blunder quote up for the sake of accuracy.

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The FCO website has some pages attempting to explain the Lisbon Treaty.

Memo to Next Government: insist that people who post material on government websites can read and write. You have to start somewhere, so why not there?

Example: this is not exactly helpful:

My voice in Europe
The Lisbon treaty ensures the European Parliament, which is made up of MEPs that you elect, in a more of the EU’s policy-making (sic).

Great, thanks.

But this is a bit better, albeit at a pretty high level of generality which does not drill down into some of the subtler aspects of the new power-balances between the different EU institutions and EU member states. Nothing here about the potentially radical impact of the new External Action Service, for example.

We serfs in the EU are therefore better off then the hapless citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where international representatives have sat down with senior BH politicians to negotiate important constitutional changes without publishing them for everyone to see.

Maybe it is time to stop treating Bosnians like passive imbeciles while at the same time moaning about their lack of Responsibility? It is their country, isn’t it?