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Le Traité de Lisbonne a été rejeté par référendum en Irlande le 12 juin 2008. Loin d’être un incident de parcours, le vote irlandais est symptomatique d’un divorce persistant entre opinions publiques et projet européen.Parmi les issues possibles, la plus probables est néanmoins celle de la poursuite de la ratification qui serait assortie d’un nouveau vote irlandais. The Treaty of Lisbon has been rejected by the referendum of the 12 of june 2008. Far away from being a mere « incident », this votation is symptomatic of a persistent « divorce » between the public opinions and the european project. Nevertheless, the most probale issue is the proceeding of the ratification process which would be accompanied with a new vote in Irland.

The Treaty of Lisbon is supposed to "release" the European construction. But the crisis into which got stuck this process is linked to various scales of time and causalities, which are more or less easy to reduce. Moreover, the Treaty changes the european governance by marking a return of States and by ratifying the principle of « Europe with variable geometry ». It brings a resolution in the problem of the representation of the diversity of States, but they will have to wait for 2014 or even on 2017 for his putting into practice.