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Monday, 29 October 2007 |
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From The Daily Telegraph : “A cross-party lobby of 63 politicians joined hundreds of protesters to urge the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, to “let the people decide”.
Speakers including Bob Spink, Conservative MP, Nigel Farage, the leader of Ukip, and Roger Helmer MEP, addressed protesters at the rally outside Parliament.
Mr Brown has come under pressure to offer a referendum on the Reform Treaty, which some Eurosceptics fear would be tantamount to the European constitution rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005. Organisers of yesterday’s rally, said a representative ballot of votes already posted on behalf of constituents by MPs and MEPs showed that 89 per cent of people wanted a referendum.” |
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Friday, 26 October 2007 |
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David Quinn, Irish Independent Social & Religous Affairs Correspondent, who wrote for the Libertas Blog on Wednesday has an Op-Ed in today’s Irish Independent on the forthcoming referendum and why Ireland should vote no. “The first is that it is unnecessarily expansive; that is, it cedes too much additional sovereignty to Brussels, especially through the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
The second reason is that we will be voting for the rest of Europe by proxy and most Europeans, at least in the major countries of the EU, want there to be a referendum in their own countries.” |
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Monday, 22 October 2007 |
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The Prime Minister of the only country constitutionally obliged to hold a referendum on the European Constitution Reform Treaty has accused other EU leaders of ‘running away’ from holding referendums.
Ireland’s Bertie Ahern (in this morning’s Irish Independent ) has said that countries should not be ‘afraid’ from giving the people an opportunity to have their say. “If you believe in something … why not let your people have a say in it. I think the Irish people should take the opportunity to show the rest of Europe that they believe in the cause, and perhaps others shouldn’t be so much afraid of it” - Bertie Ahern, Irish Prime Minister |
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Friday, 19 October 2007 |
EU Minsters agreed last night in Lisbon on the European Reform Treaty, the document which is not at all / exactly / almost exactly / 95 % like / 90% (delete where appropriate) like the European Constitution. It seems that anyone who even suggested having a problem with the text came away last night claiming victory.
- Italy will hold onto their extra MEP
- The Poles will get the Ioannina clause written into the treaty (which allows memberstates to delay legislation)
And whilst many of the minsters have congratulated Commission President Jose Barosso, many of them shouldn’t think it’s just done, not yet. |
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Thursday, 18 October 2007 |
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The eminent members of Europe’s political class may well have been struck down with indigestion as they read the dramatic results of a poll in the Financial Times over breakfast this morning. Any such cases of dyspepsia are richly deserved given the determination of these leaders to force-feed their fellow Europeans an indigestible Reform Treaty without even having the common decency to ask them how they’d like it done or whether they want it. The FT-Harris poll shows that an overwhelming majority of people in Europe’s five biggest member states want the treaty to be submitted to referendums. An average of 70% of those polled in the UK, Spain, Italy, Germany and France want a referendum on the new treaty while less than 20% said they did not. Those are stark figures. |
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