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Could Cameron kill a referendum in the UK?
Monday, 01 October 2007
The last of the big three (the other two being the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party) party conferences begins this week with the Conservative Party meeting in Brighton. One of the major pledges that Cameron has made of late is his party’s pledge for a referendum on the European Constitution/Reform Treaty. However, it’s Cameron’s involvement in this campaign that could very unwell undo the work of many others in pushing for a referendum.
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Dutch Government Rules Out Referendum on EU Treaty
Saturday, 22 September 2007
Following legal advice, the Dutch government yesterday decided to rule out a referendum on the EU Reform Treaty (or Constitution to you and me) on the basis that it does not contain constitutional elements. Describing the far-reaching document as “an ordinary amending treaty”, Dutch PM, Jan-Peter Balkenende said a referendum was “not necessary and undesireable”. However, Dutch opposition MPs may yet force a referendum against Balkenende’s wishes as they did in 2005 when the Dutch people rejected the last version of this treaty. As it stands, Ireland remains the only EU member state which will definitely hold a referendum with pressure mounting on British PM Gordon Browne to also do the decent thing.

More at EU Observer and at the BBC .
 
EU parliament chief hopes EU Treaty to be ratified before 2009
Monday, 17 September 2007
President of the European Union (EU) parliament Hans Gert Poettering hopes that the new EU treaty — the reform treaty — will be signed at the summit of heads of governments in Lisbon later this year and ratified still before the year 2009.

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Gordon Brown’s ‘Great Untruth’ - WSJ
Monday, 17 September 2007
Today’s Wall Street Journal has an op-ed piece by Christopher Booker (columnist for the London Sunday Telegraph), where Booker targets Brown as the only European Leader lieing about the European Constitution Reform Treaty.

“No other EU leader tries to hide the fact that the two documents are, as Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker put it, “99% the same.”

Booker continues with an explanation of the calls on Brown to call for a referendum mainly (mainly from a predominantly euro-skeptic perspective, mind) and the damage a referendum could have, and why Brown might be opposed to it.

“If just one country fails to ratify the treaty, EU leaders will be back with the impasse they faced two years ago. So it is a gamble they cannot afford to lose.”

Read the article on the WSJ website.
 
Turks try to make sense of it all
Monday, 17 September 2007
Saturday’s Turkish Daily News tried to make sense of the current stance on the European Constitution Reform Treaty.

“the EU has embarked on a road to less democracy by disrespecting the voice and opinion of the European humans”

Now, as this is tranlated into english the translation is a little hard on the brain, but the article is well worth a read.

As a final thought, the article calls for European “transparency and democracy “.

Read the article here .
 
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