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Irish Times  article, Friday 16 May
 
VOTE NO TO LISBON AND REJECT EUROPEAN FEDERAL STATE

Lisbon would  turn Ireland into a province or region of an EU superstate and make us citizens of it first rather than of the Irish Republic
 
by Anthony Coughlan
 
The push to turn the European Union into a superpower with many of the features [...]

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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, [...]