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“We have got a monetary federation. We need quasi-budget federation as well …
We need quasi-federation of the budget.”

- European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet, The Guardian, 1-12-2010

“I deeply respect our Irish friends’ independence … but they cannot continue to say ‘come and help us’ while keeping a tax on company profits that is half [that [...]

The financier and businessman Emmett O’Connell, formerly of Aminex and Eglinton Oil and still successfully engaged in the international mining business, has long held the view that abolishing the Irish pound and joining the eurozone was the biggest policy error ever made by the Irish State. The Greek crisis and its drastic implications for the [...]

French Europe Minister: We want a single EU military HQ
French Europe Minister Bruno Le Maire has announced in an interview with French radio that France wants the EU to have its own single defence headquarters, autonomous of NATO. He said: “While it may be a difficult objective, in time we will need to have a [...]

LISBON - NOT JUST ANOTHER EU TREATY

Below are the two key sentences of the amendment which you will be asked to put into the Irish Constitution on Thursday 12 June. If people vote Yes they will be giving the European Union the constitutional form of a Federal EU State, in which Ireland would [...]

WHAT THE TREATY OF LISBON WOULD DO
“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…There will be
no Treaty if we had a referendum in France, which would again be followed [...]

Please see update at http://www.nationalplatform.org/wordpress/?page_id=94
The Constitutional Implications of the Treaty of Lisbon
- Giving the EU the constitutional form of a State
“The pooling of coal and steel production should immediately provide for the setting up of common
foundations for economic development as a first step in the federation of Europe.”(emphasis added)
- Schumann Declaration, 9 May 1950, [...]

THE LEAKED BRITISH E-MAIL ON THE IRISH GOVERNMENT’S REFERENDUM STRATEGY
From last Monday’s IRISH DAILY MAIL
(Front page report on Monday 14 April 2008 + Editorial on page 14)
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THE TREATY CON by John Lee and Michael Lea
The Government has hatched an elaborate plan to deceive voters over the forthcoming EU treaty referendum, the Irish Daily Mail can [...]

Christopher Booker and Richard North, “THE GREAT DECEPTION: CAN THE
EUROPEAN UNION SURVIVE?”; revised paperback edition, 2005; Continuum
Publishers, London and New York;ISBN 0-8264-8014-4; Euros 14.60 or £10
sterling Web-site: www.continuumbooks.com; E-Mail:<info@continuumbooks.com>

Reviewed by Anthony Coughlan

This is the most important book ever to be written on the European Union.
It is a detailed 600-page account of the European integration [...]

*** WAR WARNINGS ON USEFUL INFO WEB-SITE

“German-foreign-policy.com” is a critical web-site full of useful insights
into German foreign policy. German foreign policy is more or less the same
as EU foreign policy these days. The web-site tells us that new German
Chancellor Angela Merkel demanded more German influence in NATO at a joint
armaments conference with [...]

*** JOINING EU BATTLE GROUPS

Ireland is to join in EU “battle groups” and send Irish soldiers off
possibly to die on EU military missions.

But Irish neutrality will not be affected, squirms Defence Minister Willie
O’Dea - he who recently had his photo taken squinting down a gun barrel on
the front page of the Sunday Independent. [...]

EU ASKS GOVERNMENT FOR IRISH TROOPS FOR THE CONGO

Xavier Solana, former NATO secretary-general and aspiring EU Foreign
Minister, is asking the Government to Irish troops to the Congo as part of
an EU force to supervise elections there. Belgium, the Congo’s former
colonial ruler, which raped the entire region during the reign of its King
Leopold 2,is backing [...]