EU Investment Agreements in the Lisbon Treaty Era: A Reader http://www.tni.org/sites/www.tni.org/files/download/eu_investment_reader.pdf The quite different interests of small and medium sized enterprises that provide 90 percent of European employment are disregarded;popular sovereignty is an outdated myth and European citizens are reduced to the status of consumers in an evermore market-oriented, neoliberal space about which they have little to say.