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Forum on Europe booklet confirms WTO veto abolished
Thursday, 15 May 2008

The Government's claim that Ireland retains its right to veto future world trade deals under Lisbon is completely blown out of the water by the Forum on Europe's official guide to the Treaty, Libertas Executive Director Naoise Nunn said today.

Mr. Nunn was speaking after this morning's session of the Forum, which heard from Ruairi Quinn TD and Joe Higgins.

Mr. Nunn said that page 64 of the forum booklet made very clear that the veto was abolished, listing the "negotiation and conclusion of agreements with one or more third countries or international organisations in the field of commercial policy" as moving from unanimity to Qualified majority voting.

Mr. Nunn said that while a veto is retained in a number of small areas under article 188c, future WTO deals would not be amongst them. Mr. Nunn said that it was "barely conceivable" that the Irish Government had failed so badly in its negotiation of the Treaty:
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Cowen can get us a better deal
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Newly elected Taoiseach Brian Cowen would be given a strong mandate to improve Ireland's position if we rejected the Lisbon Treaty, Libertas Chairman Declan Ganley told an audience at a European Movement debate in Dublin this afternoon.

Addressing employees at law firm Mason, Hayes and Curran, Ganley said that the Taoiseach would be able to take advantage of the huge pressure from the EU for the Treaty's ratification to demand a better deal.

He said that specifically, Ireland needed a protocol in the Treaty on the issue of taxation, it needed to demand the right to a permanent commissioner, and it needed measures to strengthen its voting weight at the EU Council and ensure greater accountability to the citizens of Europe.

He said that these were not "extreme demands" and that it was reasonable for the electorate to ask Mr. Cowen to achieve them:
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Walshe is strong enough to resist Yes men pressure on Lisbon
Monday, 12 May 2008

The Irish Farmer's Association President, Padraig Walshe, cannot allow himself to be bullied into supporting the Lisbon Treaty, Libertas Chairman Declan Ganley told the Forum on Europe this evening.
 
Speaking at the forum's Galway regional meeting, Mr. Ganley said that the Treaty was the "death-knell" for rural Ireland.
 
He said that he understood that the IFA leadership would be put under "huge" pressure from Brian Cowen, Enda Kenny and of course Peter Mandelson who last week dared to brand the IFA leadership liars. The organisation, and Irish farmers, should not allow themselves either to be bullied or bribed into supporting a Treaty that was so patently bad for rural Ireland.
 
He singled Mr. Walshe out for particular praise, saying that the IFA President had "shown admirable leadership", and said that he was certain that Mr. Walshe had the "necessary courage to stand up to the Pressure he will be put under":
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