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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, [...]

Myth
1. LISBON WILL MAKE THE EU MORE EFFICIENT:

If you get rid of democracy and the need to consult with people, you can certainly get more laws passed. But will they be good laws?
Is that more efficient government? When it comes to law-making it is quality that counts, not quantity. Hitler could issue [...]

*** THE EU’S FRANKENSTEIN SERVICES DIRECTIVE

The EU services directive was christened the Bolkestein directive after the
EU Commissioner who fathered it. The French know it as the Frankenstein
Directive for its feared impact on service workers’ jobs. The compromise
proposal backed by the European Parliament last week remains a threat to
workers’ wages and conditions and heralds an [...]

“SECRETIVE AND SLOPPY” EURO BANK ATTACKED

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Daily Telegraph,23 August 2005

The European Central Bank has been accused of secrecy, ineptitude, and
sloppy use of inflation targeting by one of Britain’s leading monetary
experts.

Prof Charles Goodhart, a former member of the Bank of England’s monetary
policy committee, said the ECB’s claim to manage inflation over the “medium
term” was [...]

More bizarre EU rules … For your information
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Tuesday 1 February 2005

Dear Friends,
Below for your information is an article from today’s Daily Telegraph about
a major new EU law which came into force on 1st January and which none of
us have heard anything about until now.

So far it seems to have has gone unmentioned in the Irish [...]