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Ireland under Franco-German pressure to hold new EU vote
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Nicola Smith / London Times | June 23, 2008
The Irish government is expected to bow to Franco-German pressure and hold a second referendum to try to rescue the Lisbon treaty that voters rejected this month.
The plan for a possible new vote in Ireland, being discussed by some ministers in Dublin, will be greeted with outrage by opponents of the treaty in Britain.
Irish ministers believe it may be able to rescue the treaty if they can secure concessions from Europe to placate voters on a list of issues.
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“A yes vote can be achieved if the Irish people are offered guarantees on issues like defence and taxation,” said one senior Irish official.
“The no campaign will be picked off one by one. Everyone has a price.”
The likely time for a new referendum is next spring so that the treaty can come into force before the June 2009 European election campaign for the Brussels parliament. The date is favoured by Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, and Angela Merkel, the German chancellor.
If the Irish vote no again, Gordon Brown would have to choose between siding with Ireland to stop its citizens being turned into second-class Europeans or siding with France and Germany to push ahead with further European Union integration.
Concessions likely to be sought by Ireland include guarantees to protect its neutrality in the event of European armed forces being created, the reinstatement of its right to a European commissioner and the right to set its own abortion laws and corporate tax rates.
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June 23rd, 2008 at 8:24 pm
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June 23rd, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Ireland is gonna be really pissed off about this
June 24th, 2008 at 2:06 am
Tom: Stop f---in’posting!!! f---in’ Ireland hopefully will stand tall!!!
June 24th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Ireland is the wrong country for the new world order to mess with. The Irish people will fight, they are the roots of the American Revolution. They don’t let government control them, they control the government. I wish America still had that spirit.
June 24th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Be Faithful to your people Ireland!!!! f--- PRESSURE AND EXPECTATIONS!
June 24th, 2008 at 9:54 am
i cant wait to see this thing get shot down a second time…. hell maybe even a third time
June 24th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Norway has rejected the EU membership several times. So there is hope for the people!
June 24th, 2008 at 10:21 am
IRELAND WILL PROVALE…..!!!!
CAUSE the IRISH ARE NO CHICKEN s---….!!!!
GOOD ON YOU BROTHERS……..FROM FRANCE WITH LOVE…..NOTHING BUT LUVE
June 24th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Just wait until some intelligence agency stages a terrorist attack in Ireland and then some EU lackey comes out and says “join the EU and we will protect you from terrorism” and then the Irish people take the bait. Sadly, that strategy works every time.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Really?
The voted against it, and now they have to come out and vote again??
WTF…man. It is a full time job fighting the NWO. You cannot even blink or they will strip some liberty away in that milisecond.
These are Dark Ages my friends.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:44 am
They will put in an electronic voting computer system first (that can be easily tampered), then get a new referendum and magically it will be approved.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:40 am
The voting and the polls will be better rigged next time.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Unbelievable, the people of Ireland voted NO. So deal with it, but because it isn’t what the ‘great leaders’ want they just have a very bright idea. Just vote again! They can lie to the people of Ireland and try to lure them with all sorts of promises but i think they will just vote NO again! Or at least, i hope so.
Good luck from the Netherlands!
June 24th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
The Continuity IRA conduct enough terrorism to be getting on with in Ireland, and Ireland is simply not important enough to the EU, to instigate any black-flag operation/s.
If the Irish were as principled as has been suggested, they would remove themselves from the EU without having to be coerced into another referendum or have to accept a lesser position. This is unlikely.
June 24th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
this is not the first time we have been asked to vote on this treaty! its the second time! the first time they called it the Nees treaty,then it was the Lisbon treaty, this is round three?
i see it now after a couple of weeks the scare tactics going on in the media, big down turn in our economy as is everywhere, the politics are going for each others throats, “irelands doomed” ,its quite funny!!
the big fat smelly bankers in brussels want their war money and THINK they can bully us into it!!
i think, so what if we suffer for a few years, we’ve done it before and we came out on top, we’ll benifit in the long run.
keep your europeon union!
oh yea thanks for the money,it all gone!
great party!!!
June 24th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
That’s “democracy” here in Europe. “You’ll vote till we get our way”…
June 24th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
These countries are being asked to give up their identities as separate nations with their own culture and I don’t blame them for wanting to defend their unique way of life as should all the other countries of this EU fiasco. This is whats coming here only we will do this with the states and some will secede and war will start.
It’s just consolidation by the banks to achieve five world currencies and trade centers for the Banksters control. The anonymity of your cash is gone and they will force us all into a cashless society. Your every move will be known to someone at anytime night or day. You will be inserted into the matrix. Are you ready to be a slave? I’m not and won’t!
June 25th, 2008 at 1:01 am
every irish citizen who voted no,
find ONE PERSON who voted yes, and change their mind and explain the agenda…
and boom, they cannot win!!!
STAND UP AND BE COUNTED!
TO KNOW is to ACT!
June 25th, 2008 at 2:09 am
Do you reckon they would have had a 2nd referendum if the vote had been yes?? It should be illegal to hold another no matter how many proposed changes.
August 2nd, 2008 at 8:44 pm
No democracy in Germany… …we work on it.
But we are under allied law at all since WorldWarII
We had no peace treaty and the most of germans are thinking we are a sovereign state.
Bad! We are not…
sorry for my bad english
greetings from Germany!
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