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Excerpts from the meeting between Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, and members of the Conference of the Presidents of the European Parliament, Friday 5 December 2008, Prague Castle:
Daniel Cohn-Bendit MEP: I brought you a flag, which - as we heard - you have everywhere here at the Prague Castle. It is the flag [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 KEY SENTENCES OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
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 turning the European Union which we are members of at present, and in which we will remain, into [...]

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 [...]

*** NAPOLEON THE FIRST EURO-FEDERALIST?

“We must have a European legal system, a European appeal court, a common
currency, the same weights and measures, the same laws …I must make of
all the peoples of Europe one people,and of Paris the capital of the
world.” So said Emperor Napoleon 1 in conversation with his Chief of
Police Joseph [...]

Open Letter from Anthony Coughlan

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TO:

Ms Aine Lawlor
Morning Ireland,
RTE,
Dublin 4

Wednesday, 14 December 2005

Dear Aine Lawlor,

I was amused to hear you interview ICTU’s David Begg on “Morning Ireland”
today re the Irish Ferries dispute and to hear him expatiating on what he
termed the problems that arise from merging an Irish labour force of 2
million with an East European [...]