Tuesday Jun 17th 2008
Ireland says no
Ireland’s no vote in their referendum on the Lisbon Treaty raises a host of questions and issues.
As a country that has benefited more than pretty well any other (alongside Spain) from the EU’s largesse, it is quite something that the Celtic tiger has turned on what was the goose that laid the golden egg.
Beyond that, though, it raises the broader question. Will the EU ever listen to its citizens?
Don’t get me wrong – I am not a eurosceptic and this is not a rant against the EU.
But it has now been 7 years since the Convention on the Future of Europe started to draw up proposals for an EU constitution. That was then rejected by both the French and the Dutch in referenda in 2005. It was then re-named the Lisbon Treaty and has now been rejected by the only country that is holding a referendum.
Coriolanus | 7:32am |
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