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11 October 2010
http://www.openeurope.org.uk/media-centre/summary.aspx?id=1204
The Irish edition of the Sunday Times reported that Edmund Honohan, Master of the Irish High Court, has accused the Irish Parliament of failing to assert Irish legislation over new laws from Brussels and delegating much of the workload involved in scrutinising EU law to civil servants.

http://www.swp.ie/editorial/who-are-bond-holders/3669
Who are the Bond-holders?
SWP [...]

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 [...]

(N.B. This press release is being posted to all TDs, Senators and MEPs, to the members of the High Court and Supreme Court, the Referendum Commission and  the Catholic Hierarchy, and to the media and leading activists on the Yes and No sides in the Lisbon Treaty referendum, in the interest of public information. [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

Huge sums of EU political advertising to influence Irish voters in next EU Treaty referendum

The EU Commission Representation in Ireland has induced Newstalk 106 and local community radio stations across the country to act illegally during March and April by carrying daily political advertisements aimed at influencing voting behaviour and party attitudes in the [...]

EU FUNDING JOURNALISTS TO COVER EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

By Dan Bilefsky, International Herald Tribune

Wednesday 5 April 2006

BRUSSELS: The European Parliament is subsidizing journalists to cover its
parliamentary sessions in Strasbourg, a move that legislators say aims to
ensure that the EU’s only democratically elected body is not ignored.

As part of a program dating to the 1980s, journalists [...]

*** EU REAPPOINTS FAILED ANTI-FRAUD CHIEF

The commissars of the EU Commission have overruled Member States’ request
for a new head of the EU’s internal anti-fraud agency, OLAF. The
Commission has re-appointed German citizen Franz-Hermann Bruner, who has
headed OLAF since March 2000, from among 181 candidates for the job.

Bruner has been strongly criticised this past two years [...]

“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 [...]

Thursday 7 July 2005

****** BERTIE AHERN’S PAPAL VISIT TODAY **********

The moves to have Bertie Ahern visit Pope Benedict in Rome today were
almost certainly initiated by the Department of Foreign Affairs before the
French vote on the EU Constitution five weeks ago, on 29 May.

Iveagh House, which decides these things, will have [...]