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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 [...]

You may find of  interest the remarks below of Mr Dick Roche TD  when a backbencher in 2001  and before he was promoted to Minister for Europe, regarding the proposal to re-run the Nice referendum.
They provide a piquant contrast to some of his recent statements.
The voter turnout in the 2001 Nice referendum was 35%,  in [...]

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 [...]

HOW THE LISBON TREATY WILL AFFECT…
YOUR PAY
1. Lisbon will copperfasten the December 2007 Laval/Vaxholm judgement of the EU Court of Justice, which makes it illegal for Governments or Trade Unions to enforce pay standards higher than the minimum wage for migrant workers. At the same time Lisbon would give the EU full control of immigration [...]

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 [...]

The Lisbon Treaty amendment on EU harmonized taxes which has not been publicly mentioned so far in Ireland’s referendum debate

Article  2.79 of the Lisbon Treaty would insert a six-word amendment -”and to avoid distorton of competition” - into the Article of the existing European Treaties dealing with harmonising indirect taxes - Article 113. [...]

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 [...]

*** 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 [...]

GERMAN POLITICIANS SEEK TO “EUROBULLY” FRENCH VOTERS … For your information:
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” I have always found the word ‘Europe’ on the lips of people who wanted
something from others which they dared not demand under their own names.”

- German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck, Gedenken und Erinnerungen,1880

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Former German Ambassador to France, [...]

Truth from Europhile German and Spanish leaders on the EU
Constitution

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German Europe Minister: The EU Constitution is “the birth certificate of
the United States of Europe”.

Spanish Foreign Minister: “We are witnessing the last remnants of national
politics”

Hans Martin Bury, the German Minister for Europe, said during a debate in
the Bundestag that, “This Constitution is, in spite of all [...]