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Source: news.telegraph.co.uk --- 35 days ago
European Union officials expect Ireland to cave in and hold a second Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in Autumn 2009. ... Source: www.indymedia.ie --- 44 days ago
The sheer dereliction of duty of the statutory Referendum Commission during the Lisbon Treaty Referendum will assuredly be found shocking by future historians of our times. The Oireachtas voted the Commission over €5 million to enable it do its job of informing citizens what the Lisbon Referendum was about. Rarely can public money have been spent to such ill effect. The Commission spent €2.7 on media advertising. It paid An Post €1 million to deliver 2.2 million information handbooks to households. In the circumstances it was a democratic miracle that the majority of Irish voters rejected the proposal to amend the Irish Constitution. If the Commission had done the job it was statutorily required to do, the No-side majority would almost certainly have been much larger, for people would have learned of the constitutional revolution which Lisbon proposed, instead of being kept in ignorance of it. ... Source: www.politicsinireland.com --- 38 days ago
The Irish Independent reports that Irish PM Brian Cowen has indicated that parts of the Lisbon Treaty can be ratified in the Dail (Irish lower chamber) without a Referendum. The article notes that “it is understood that Mr Cowen sees …... Continue reading » ...
Source: www.moreover.com --- 22 days ago
The National Forum On Europe held a workshop meeting in Dublin today which heard an analysis of opinion poll data on the Lisbon Treaty Referendum from Professor Richard Sinnott. A wide-range of parties and groups represented on the Forum participated in ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 35 days ago
AN EU official has asserted in an internal briefing paper that Ireland will bow to overwhelming European pressure next month and agree to hold a second Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. The paper, entitled The Solution to the Irish Problem, predicts that ... Source: blogs.telegraph.co.uk --- 20 hours ago
Almost lost in the crisis is this statement by the Irish Taoiseach which, in normal circs, might have been the big story of the Brussels summit. Brian Cowen seemed to rule out any prospect of a second Referendum this side of June's European election. "We will work extremely closely with the Presidency, with the Member States and with the Union's institutions between now and our next meeting in December. With sufficient determination and political will, I believe that we can make the necessary progress." (Trans: "Jaysus, boys, would yez stop pushin' me? I'm after tellin' yez that we can't rush things!") Eurocrats have plainly cooked up some scheme to allow the Euro-elections, and possibly the subsequent Commission nominations, to go ahead with the numbers envisaged in the European Constitution Lisbon Treaty. Or, as the Taoiseach put it in fluent European: "I am extremely mindful that there are important milestones in the course of 2009 which require clarity at an early date. We will continue to work with our partners to ensure that we can overcome the uncertainty that currently exists." ... Source: news.google.ie --- 6 days ago
Full text of Wallstrom letter on Irish vote Irish Times - 6 hours ago In the wake of the Irish Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, much has been said about how best to inform the public and gain their confidence and support. Tempers flare at first Lisbon 'think-in' Irish Independent Rescuing the Lisbon Treaty Financial Times The Press Association - LDPBusiness - Irish Times - Irish Times all 14 news articles ... Source: blogs.telegraph.co.uk --- 35 days ago
The Irish government has finally released the data from a survey it took to determine why the Irish people voted to reject the Lisbon Treaty. The findings are pretty damning, not least for the government who called it. From the report: There were other concerns cited , but the primary reason why such a pro EU country like Ireland rejected the Treaty was that it was too complex and difficult for any lay citizen to understand . Dan, towards the end of his extensive coverage of the Referendum , observed when the No vote came through that: ... Source: blogs.news.sky.com --- 30 days ago
The Birmingham Edgbaston MP has given a damning account of GB's first year in charge in an article for the Conference edition of House Magazine. Now, Gisela Stuart is no friend of the PM and has attacked him the past, not least over his refusal to hold a Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. But, her comments chime with the current critique of GB and his alleged failure to renew the Labour government. Whilst Stuart laments the absence of a proper leadership contest last year, when I spoke to her a moment ago she refused to be drawn on whether or not she supports the current moves by her backbench colleagues. She did, though, quote one erstwhile Labour leader of whom she was very fond. 'The kaleidescope has been shaken', she said, 'the pieces are in flux!' ... Source: www.ft.com --- 34 days ago
Dublin will tell its EU partners at next month's leaders' summit that it is not possible to stage a fresh Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty before next summer's European elections, as France and others have sought ... Source: blogs.telegraph.co.uk --- 34 days ago
I hadn't planned to return to the subject of Ireland's Referendum . There seemed nothing more to say. I'm sticking to my prediction that there won't be a second Referendum on the European Constitution Lisbon Treaty (though there may be a vote on some bits of it, once the bulk has been rammed throu... ... Source: www.rte.ie --- 35 days ago
The Government has published its research into the reasons behind the No vote in the Lisbon Treaty Referendum. ... Source: www.ireland.com --- 35 days ago
'ADVOCATING INSTITUTIONAL reform to voters who have such a sketchy knowledge of how the EU operates is a very difficult task." One of the key lessons of the worthwhile research published yesterday by the Government on why people voted as they did in June's Lisbon Treaty Referendum is contained in this sentence from the report. ... Source: www.ireland.com --- 44 days ago
IRELAND'S MEDIA have become more Eurosceptic and more tabloid in their reporting in the years between the second Nice Treaty Referendum and the Lisbon campaign, the European Commission has warned. ... Source: www.freemarketnews.com --- 31 days ago
The Daily Telegraph reported yesterday that the European Union and Irish politicians seeking to expand the powers of the EU, plan to force another Referendum in Ireland on the Lisbon Treaty. ... Source: www.intute.ac.uk --- 36 days ago
This survey, produced by Eurobarometer, was published in June 2008. It follows the Irish Referendum on whether to accept the Lisbon Treaty and the resulting No vote. It seeks to understand why the majority voted against the Treaty and why many did not participate at all. It also looks at views about the campaign, reasons for Yes and No votes and overall reactions to the result. There are some interesting findings about socio-demographic profiles, gender and age of voters. ... Source: www.independent.ie --- 33 days ago
OPINION pollsters are earnest people who work very hard to get their figures right. Some things, however, are beyond their power. This week's Millward Brown IMS blockbuster on the Lisbon Treaty derives from a polling sample of over 2,000, which should guarantee almost total accuracy, but it leaves the establishment as baffled as ever on the question of why the voters rejected the Treaty in the Referendum in June. ... Source: www.bnp.org.uk --- 32 days ago
A secret European Union plan to force Ireland to vote again on the Lisbon Treaty has been uncovered. French officials have penned an explosive document entitled ‘Solution to the Irish Problem’, in which they say the EU should push Ireland into re-running its Referendum next year, opening the way for the Treaty to come into [...] ... Source: www.independent.ie --- 27 days ago
The leader of the Green Party says no firm decision has been agreed in Government yet as to whether or not the Lisbon Treaty will be passed by Referendum or by legislation. ... Find more results for Lisbon Treaty Referendum on RSSMicro.com |
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Get Ganley! That's the word going out from Dublin and Brussels... I sit in the office of a senior politician, a serious man who is taking a conspiracy theory seriously, a man who has taken time to get the measure of the man in his cross-hairs... a man who feels his enemy is acting on behalf of an alien, foreign ideology. No sniper from the Irish secret service, if there is one, is carefully packing away infra-red sights, no hit man from the European Parliament's non-existent military wing is spending time with mercury tilt switches. But Declan Ganley, the millionaire businessman who bankrolled and masterminded the successful "No" campaign in the Irish Referendum, is a target all the same. Many in the European establishment would like to see Mr Ganley come a cropper, see his campaigning days terminated and his nascent political career liquidated before he can do any more damage. The mysterious Mr Ganley is now talking about turning his think-tank Libertas into an EU-wide political party. He's been touring Europe looking for support for his campaign to turn next year's elections to the European Parliament into another Referendum: on what he calls the anti-democratic Europe of the Lisbon Treaty . You remember - that's the one that so many say is just like the constitution the Dutch and French threw out. But the European Parliament has instructed the Irish authorities to investigate his funding and motives: many believe that the myst ...