To answer Sucre’s question first, am I happy with the Lisbon treaty?
I am not happy with a particular aspect of the Lisbon Treaty, namely the increased involvement of the European Parliament in the legislative process. EU citizens are simply not ready to give more power to a European parlement which consists of politicians they have never heard of before.

Let me make it clear that I am not against an EU that has more political power, it is just that due to the immense diversity (language, culture, education, etc) of EU countries, it’s citizens do not yet share a common ground politically. To illustrate this with an example, it is highly unlikely a French citizen will say, ‘ I will vote for a British politician to represent my interests’. It would be extremely interesting if this were the case, however in my used example, France and Great Britain do not yet share enough common ground te be united politically, let alone 27 countries! This is exactly where the problem lies and the reason why I made the film EU and ME. In order to achieve this common ground, the EU and national governments should focus there time and energy on intiatives that help people from the different EU states to engage with each other. This will take time and cannot be forced by passing a treaty which a majority of the people can't relate to, let alone knowing what the EU is trying to achieve! In this regard, I must say that I partly agree with Slartibartfas’s comment that this is down to the ignorance of EU citizens, but it is also down to the age old problem of EU politicians not being able to address the right issues and engaging EU citizens.

Stillalive’s question about how to hold a referendum for 500 million people is a good one, but it misses the point, namely the one I made above and that is that countries do not yet share enough common ground to be politically united. Once this has been achieved I do see a referendum being a viable tool to promote democracy. With the technological advances made over the past years and which is set to continue, holding a referendum for 500 million people is not an impossibility and I think will actually become a reality.