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“The member states whose currency is the euro may establish a stability mechanism to be activated if indispensable to safeguard the stability of the euro area as a whole. The granting of any required financial assistance under the mechanism will be made subject to strict conditionality.”
- Amendment to Article 136 of [...]

Statement from the National Platform EU Research and Information Centre, March 2011
1. FIANNA FÁIL DOWN, FINE GAEL AND LABOUR STILL TO GO
One big party – Fianna Fáil -  that supported Ireland’s blanket Bank bailout, the EU/IMF stitch-up last December,  the 2009 Lisbon Treaty, the 1992 Maastricht Treaty which abolished the Irish púnt,  and every other [...]

The Irish Times - Friday, March 4, 2011 (letters)

Madam, – Dr Garret FitzGerald (Opinion, February 12th) shows concern that moving away from the so-called “community method” of making EU laws towards a more “inter-governmental” approach may open the way to an EU that “for the first time becomes dominated by some [...]

“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 [...]

EUROFACTS … 30 November 2009
LISBON TREATY COMES INTO FORCE TODAY, TUESDAY
The Lisbon Treaty, which has 99% the same legal effect as the EU Constitution that was rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005, comes into force on tomorrow, 1 December.
The European Union Act 2009 was published at the end of October. This Act implements [...]