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  • 10 reasons why the Lisbon Treaty is a bad deal for Ireland
    13 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    1. It puts at risk our automatic right to a referendum on future changes to existing treaties.
    2. It gives the EU too much power and reduces our ability to stop decisions that are not in Ireland’s interests.
    3. It gives 105 additional powers to the EU on issues such as international relations, security, trade and economic policy – and in more than 60 of these areas we will lose our right to stop laws not in our national interest.
    4. It creates an EU Foreign Minister and (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Blair put forward as first 5 year term EU President
    7 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Patrick Wintour
    "I’ll be president of Europe if you give me the power - Blair"
    Tony Blair has been holding discussions with some of his oldest allies on how he could mount a campaign later this year to become full-time president of the EU council, the prestigious new job characterised as “president of Europe”. Blair, currently the Middle East envoy for the US, Russia, EU and the UN, has told friends he has made no final decision, but is increasingly willing to put himself forward for (…)

  • Stop Blair !
    7 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Petition against the nomination of Tony Blair as "President of the EuropeanUnion"
    http://www.stopblair.eu/
    We, European citizens of all origins and of all political persuasions, wish to express our total opposition to the nomination of Tony Blair to the Presidency of the European Council.
    The Treaty of Lisbon provides for the new post of President of the European Council, to be elected by the Council for a mandate, renewable once only, of two and a half years. Under the terms of 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 (…)

  • Adieu, France
    5 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Lisbon Treaty gets Versailles vote
    French MPs have voted to amend their constitution to permit the adoption of the revised European Constitution.
    EU Observer quotes Prime Minister Francois Fillon as hailing the decision as "a vote that distinguishes the actors of history from the spectators."
    Held in a special session in Versailles, the vote by France’s Chamber of Deputies was passed 560 to 181. Opposition Socialists abstained, arguing that while they supported the Lisbon Treaty, they (…)

  • ’Blair Government under police investigation for war crimes.’ Press Conference
    29 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Press Release: Scotland Yard to investigate Tony Blair and ex-Attorney General Peter Goldsmith for war crimes
    Press Conference, Room C, ... all » 1 Parliament Street Tuesday 15th January 2008 3pm
    John McDonnell MP, Chris Coverdale: International War Law Expert and Annie Machon of the Campaign to Make War History brief MPs and the media on allegations of war crimes committed against the people of Iraq by Britain’s former Prime Minister and former Attorney General.
    Officers from Scotland (…)