Lisbon Treaty naysayers up the ante

Opponents of the Lisbon Treaty have stepped up efforts to persuade voters in Ireland to say no – again. The Irish rejected the treaty by 53 per cent to 46 per cent in June last year but the Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, has announced a second referendum on October 2 in a bid to get the treaty ratified.

by Tribune Web Editor
Thursday, July 30th, 2009

by Keith Richmond

Opponents of the Lisbon Treaty have stepped up efforts to persuade voters in Ireland to say no – again. The Irish rejected the treaty by 53 per cent to 46 per cent in June last year but the Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, has announced a second referendum on October 2 in a bid to get the treaty ratified. He said new “legal guarantees” made it necessary to re-run the referendum.
But Aengus O Snodaigh, Sinn Féin’s spokesman on European affairs in the Dail, said: “They have returned from Brussels with the very same treaty they put to us last year.”

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  • amanda scott

    To ratify the Lisbon Treaty would be a crushing blow to irish freedom as we know it and for all those countries within the EU who have been forced to ratify it without a vote of their own. The European Union has a stranglehold on the EU member states as it is, and by allowing the Lisbon Treaty to go ahead would mean giving total power to brussels taking the decision making out of the hands of the governments of these countries and in doing so the citzens of Europe would no longer live in a democracy where a vote counts!!

  • amanda scott

    To ratify the Lisbon Treaty would be a crushing blow to irish freedom as we know it and for all those countries within the EU who have been forced to ratify it without a vote of their own. The European Union has a stranglehold on the EU member states as it is, and by allowing the Lisbon Treaty to go ahead would mean giving total power to brussels taking the decision making out of the hands of the governments of these countries and in doing so the citzens of Europe would no longer live in a democracy where a vote counts!!