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To: IrishMike

Here’s cheers to my Irish cousins ... congratulations on standing up to the tyranny of the EU.


6 posted on 06/13/2008 5:24:27 AM PDT by mgc1122
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To: mgc1122

The treaty was negotiated in Lisbon last December by EU leaders as a way of replacing the proposed European constitution, which had earlier been rejected by voters in France in the Netherlands.

It would have provided for many of the same Europe-wide government arrangements foreseen in the rejected constitution, but as an international treaty, only parliamentary approval was necessary for ratification.

The exception was Ireland, the lone European country that requires a referendum on all constitutional changes.

Opinion polls across Europe consistently show that political elites in member states are far more enthusiastic about making the EU into a supranational government than ordinary voters.


10 posted on 06/13/2008 5:30:12 AM PDT by IrishMike (I am not a Republican first. I am a conservative.)
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