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  • Sinn Féin launches Lisbon Treaty alternative
    13 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    LAUNCHING Sinn Féin’s alternative guide to the Lisbon Treaty, Dublin MEP Mary Lou McDonald said this week that the referendum campaign will be very different to previous EU referenda.
    “People know that Ireland’s place in the EU is secure and that it is possible to support the EU and be against the Lisbon Treaty,” she said. “People will be deciding how to vote on the basis of how this treaty will impact on Ireland. This will inform the debate for the coming months.”
    McDonald was speaking (…)

  • What exactly are we reforming in this treaty?
    12 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Vincent Browne
    Last Wednesday afternoon, I visited the offices of the European Commission in Molesworth Street, Dublin. I wanted a copy of the Lisbon Reform Treaty, on which we will vote in a few months. One of the three gentlemen at reception gave me a photocopy of the document, the only form in which this treaty is available.
    I noted that on page 10 (I think it was on page 10, for even the page numbers are confusing) Article 1 stated: ‘‘The Treaty on the European Union shall be (…)

  • Why Ireland Must Reject the Lisbon Treaty
    9 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Declan Ganley writes in The Irish Daily Mail’s Saturday Essay on why Ireland must reject The Lisbon Treaty. On this past Thursday morning at 11 am Irish time, a group of 27 European political leaders signed their names to the Treaty of Lisbon. As they wielded their pens, further empowering an unaccountable Brussels elite, one has to wonder if any of them felt the weight of betrayal of the citizens they were supposed to be representing. When was it that the 27 lost their belief in the (…)

  • 66% undecided on Lisbon Treaty
    9 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    An opinion poll published today indicates that nearly two thirds of voters have yet to decide how to vote in the planned referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
    Only 12% of people believe they have a satisfactory knowledge of what is in the treaty.
    However, the poll which appears in today’s Irish Times suggests that of those voters who have made up their minds, supporters of the agreement are leading the way.
    Ireland is the only EU country holding a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, and the (…)

  • Irish warned against new veto to EU treaty
    6 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    (DUBLIN) - Ireland’s foreign minister warned the country’s voters Tuesday against rejecting a new EU treaty, saying critics were using the same "myths" as when the country vetoed a former pact.
    Dermot Ahern said Ireland, which sent shockwaves when it voted out the Nice Treaty in 2001, could not "turn its back" on the European Union in a referendum on the new, so-called Lisbon treaty, or Reform Treaty, this year.
    Ireland, whose long-booming "Celtic Tiger" economy was seen as a model for (…)