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... not confiscated the people's right to another referendum, I would have voted no again to the Lisbon ("Reform") Treaty - a clone of the rejected constitution, except for "cosmetic changes" making it "easier to swallow", as Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, principal author of the constitution, said. No flag, no Beethoven hymn, but the rest is there as Angela Merkel, José Manuel Barroso, Bertie Ahern...
And I’m not exaggerating: Mary Hanafin actually said that unless the European project was fully realised, the alternative was another Auschwitz: an echo of the same idiocy that was uttered across the chancelleries of Europe after the …... Continue reading »
So my second reason, an extension of my first, even if everyone is given a detailed breakdown of the 294 page document, even if Dick Roche goes around to each voter in Ireland and explains which treaties will be amended, what Articles …... Continue reading »
... shows, while Justin O’Mahony suggests that we should annoy the headbangers and vote yes . The Lisbon Treaty blog offers ten reasons to vote no , whilst your good author puts forward another argument - this time the increased role of national parliaments for voting yes. The Crabling Otter is verring towards a no vote given a lack of public information, but the Journal of Integrity has gone...
Apart from Joshua Davis' talk , the other main highlight of OFFF, the software and visual communication conference which took place last week in Lisbon, was the panel on Data Visualization curated and moderated by the European evangelist of the discipline: Jose-Luis de Vicente . Lounge at the LX factory where OFFF took place this year As the abstract of the panel reminds: data visualization...
... beating up on each other for control, we have lawyers "writing" the un-intelligible Treaty of Lisbon , arguably the rejected EU Constitution in disguise but unreadable in any language AND we have terrorist groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, and others happily blowing us up while they work as proxies for terrorist-funding nations who cannot fight us man-to-man. The lawyers are even...
POSTER CAMPAIGN: FINE GAEL leader Enda Kenny has said he believes the Yes vote will prevail in the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, while accepting it will be difficult to generate a high level of interest.
My apologies for harping on about this (in addition to the US Presidential campaign), but the numbers in the Irish Times poll on Lisbon today are worth close examination. Overall 35% of voters are voting Yes, 18% intend to vote No and 47% remain undecided. The Yes vote is up 9%, the No vote is [...]
The referendum on the Lisbon Treaty is in effect new government elections in Ireland The propaganda recently launched by the government in support of the new federal EU constitution nicknamed as “Lisbon Treaty”, has failed to actually attach the text of the Treaty to their claims on the treaty. The voters of Ireland will be called to submit their votes on an international treaty that...
Employers' body Ibec has welcomed the latest poll on the Lisbon Treaty which shows support for the Lisbon Treaty has increased significantly since January.
... rhetorical and actual support to national parliaments in this system of governance. However, with Lisbon a number of large steps are taken, steps which I believe will positively impact our perception of the democratic responsiveness of the EU. The main change Lisbon brings through, is the role of national parliaments in enforcing subsidiarity. Subsidiarity is an important, but all...
Schuman Project www.schuman.info 55 rue de Mot B-1040 Brussels Tel : +32 230 7621 David Heilbron Price Editor 5 March 2008 Personal to Mr. Hans-Gert Pöttering President, European Parliament Corruption/cartel problem in Lisbon Treaty draft Dear President Pöttering, Since the first session of the Assembly under the presidency of Paul-Henri Spaak in September 1952, Parliament has grown in stature. The...
The general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (Ictu) David Begg has urged workers who have concerns about the European project to put them aside and to vote Yes in the Lisbon Treaty referendum.
Together with the Portuguese EU Presidency, the European Commission is organising a major conference today and tomorrow in Lisbon to discuss the concrete outcomes of European social dialogue and the benefits they have brought to European workers and companies.
