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Irish Times  article, Friday 16 May
 
VOTE NO TO LISBON AND REJECT EUROPEAN FEDERAL STATE

Lisbon would  turn Ireland into a province or region of an EU superstate and make us citizens of it first rather than of the Irish Republic
 
by Anthony Coughlan
 
The push to turn the European Union into a superpower with many of the features [...]

“Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly … All the earlier proposals will be in the new text, but will be hidden and disguised in some way.”
- Former French President V.Giscard D’Estaing, who helped to draw up the EU Constitution which the [...]

WHAT TOP EU POLITICIANS SAY ABOUT THE LISBON TREATY/ EU CONSTITUTION
(These quotations are in chronological order backwards)
“France was just ahead of all the other countries in voting No. It would happen in all Member States if they have a referendum. There is a cleavage between people and governments… A referendum now would bring Europe into [...]

Monday 28 April 2008

Barroso, Bonde and Ireland’s company Taxes . . . Excerpt from “Bonde’s Briefing” by Jens-Peter Bonde MEP, Chairman, Independence and Democracy Group in the European Parliament, forwarded for your information

Misinformation in Ireland
I was in Ireland this weekend (18 April). Accidentally I met the Commission President José Manuel Barroso at [...]

ADDITIONAL POSSIBLE MATERIAL FOR LEAFLETS
The text of the two leaflets (What Lisbon would do; How Lisbon will affect…) is laid out in 9-point Times New Roman font. Some of the key points can be put in bold and should still fit in one page.
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Insert a line or two at the bottom of the leaflet: Issued [...]