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“Ireland entered the euro in 1999 and lost control of the two vital monetary instruments: setting interest rates and setting currency exchange rates. Had Ireland remained outside the euro, its bankers would not have gained access to the euro zone’s vast and low interest borrowing opportunities. Without the outlandish credit [...]

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 [...]

JENS-PETER BONDE
(EUObserver/Comment)
24 July 2009
The German Constitutional Court issued a remarkable verdict on 30 June. It was described in the press as the Court’s approval of the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.
However, careful reading of the judgement shows that it is a fundamental rejection of the core constitutional content of the Treaty.
The Court judgement modifies the [...]

The  Dáil and Seanad should insist on  parliamentary control over the Taoiseach and Government Ministers in exercising the self-amending powers of the Lisbon Treaty, just as the German Constitutional Court requires the German Parliament to do.

Below for your information is a news item received from  Open Europe, London,  on the German Constitutional Court’s  decision of this morning on the Lisbon Treaty.
Appended to this post is an ☛on-site link to the Constitutional Court’s  decision  in English.
It seems that the  Constitutional  Court is saying that Germany, at least , must ensure that [...]

The central point to grasp about the current EU Summit proceedings on the Lisbon Treaty is that Messrs Brian Cowen’s and Micheál Martin’s “legally binding guarantees” to meet Irish voters’ concerns do not change a jot or tittle of that Treaty.
If they changed even a comma, the Lisbon Treaty would become a different [...]

☞ ft.com/brusselsblog
by Denis Cooper
There can be few more terrifying sentences in contemporary English than: “The Treaty of Lisbon is not the last word.”
The sentence appears in “Saving the European Union” a new book by Andrew Duff, a British Liberal Democrat who sits in the European Parliament. It is certain to raise the hackles of [...]

What a load of rubbish Barroso talks. The procedures for ratifying treaties are clear and nobody has any obligation to anyone else if they decdide that other things are more important than ratifying the wretched Lisbon Treaty which the European public doesn’t want.

The Phoenix
March 13, 2009
Affairs of the Nation, p.11
“The Czech Prime Minister, Mirek Topolanek, was dealt with in no uncertain terms by Labour’s Europhile Dublin MEP Proinsias De Rossa recently after the Czech leader, whose country assumed presidency of the EU in January, addressed the European Parliament.
“Topolanke explained that he would not be to upset if [...]

Thursday 11 December 2008

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Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s hypocrisy in pretending to “respect” the people’s referendum vote on Lisbon is now evident, for not a jot or tittle of Lisbon will be altered when he forces [...]

DECLAN GANLEY AND JENS-PETER BONDE
Today , Thursday 11 December 2008 @ 09:13 CET
EUOBSERVER / COMMENT - The French president yesterday told the group leaders of the European parliament that he has made a deal with the Irish government to hold a second referendum in Ireland to ratify the Lisbon treaty first rejected on 12 June [...]