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Irish Voters Poised To Sink EU Treaty
By Ian Traynor, Europe editor,
The Guardian, UK,
Friday June 6, 2008
Opponents of the new EU treaty campaign in Dublin for a "no" vote in
next week's referendum. Photograph: Julien Behal/PA
The European Union is bracing itself for a fresh bout of doom and
gloom as the Irish look increasingly likely to deliver a mighty snub
to Europe by rejecting the new Lisbon treaty in next week's
referendum.
The latest opinion poll shows those intending to vote against the EU
reform treaty doubling in number in recent weeks, soaring into a five-
point lead over the "yes" camp.
A vote against the treaty would sink the ambitions of Berlin, Brussels
and Paris to reshape the EU by giving it a sitting president, foreign
minister, a diplomatic service, a new voting system and decision-
taking powers, and streamlining the European commission.
Following previous negative referendum results in Ireland, France, and
The Netherlands over the past seven years, an new Irish rejection
would also be hailed - at least by Eurosceptics - as a huge vote of no
confidence in Europe's elites and the way the EU is run.
Ireland's governing and main opposition parties, all strongly in
favour of the treaty, are panicking. Top officials in Brussels show
every sign of descending into depression.
An Irish Times poll published today shows the treaty opponents making
meteoric gains, doubling from 17% to 35% of the vote in recent weeks,
while the treaty's sup****ters slumped from 35% to 30%.
With only six days to go before the sole popular vote on the treaty in
a union of 27 countries, the "yes" camp clearly faces an uphill
struggle to reverse the momentum for ditching the treaty.
"The referendum is heading for defeat," said an editorial in the pro-
EU Irish Times. "There is a dramatic ****ft in public opinion towards a
'no' vote ... the government and its allies may find it impossible to
turn the tide. The Lisbon treaty may not be passed."
Today's pessimism has wiped out the confident air of the "yes" camp,
fuelled earlier this week when Ireland's farmers finally swung behind
the treaty.
The do***ent, masterminded last year by the German chancellor, Angela
Merkel, and signed by EU leaders in December, is the response to the
failed attempt to craft a constitution for Europe, a campaign wrecked
by French and Dutch "no" votes in 2005. The new treaty retains most of
the institutional innovations set out in the draft constitution, but
is stripped of the symbolism of constitutionality.
As an amending treaty, augmenting and revising previous European
treaties, the do***ent is an indigestible compendium of articles,
legalisms, and protocols. It matters, but it is not an easy read, and
this factor is contributing hugely to the "no" campaign's success in
turning the Irish against the new dispensation. Analysis of today's
poll results showed that confusion was the key to turning voters
against the treaty. Many voters said they were voting "no" because
they could not understand it.
In Brussels, senior Irish officials fear that the vote will be lost.
Dick Roche, Ireland's Europe minister, is privately telling friends
that his government is in trouble. "He certainly felt it could go
badly. He's very worried about it being lost," said a source who spoke
to Roche this week.
The referendum campaign has already contributed to the resignation of
the Irish prime minister, Bertie Ahern, last month. A "no" vote could
bring down his replacement, Brian Cowen, who said today that he would
take responsibility for the result.
A "no" vote would also be cheered by Britain's Conservatives, who have
been challenging Gordon Brown endlessly on the treaty and demanding a
UK referendum.
Given that Merkel worked tirelessly last year to resurrect the
constitution in treaty form, senior German officials in Brussels are
panicking. At the weekly meeting of top officials from the 27 member
states, the Germans are ensuring that few decisions are taken for fear
of affecting the Irish vote. "They're completely over-reacting," said
a senior EU diplomat.
The grim outlook in Ireland is also spurring criticism among Eurocrats
about staging referendums at all on EU matters. Following the popular
votes against in France and Holland, Merkel, along with Nicolas
Sarkozy in France, and Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in Britain,
structured the new treaty expressly to avoid popular votes and rely on
parliamentary ratification.
But Ireland, uniquely, is constitutionally bound to stage referendums
on EU treaties, meaning that less than 1% of the EU's population of
more than 450 million has the power to determine the fate of European
treaties.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/06/ireland.eu
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Irish Turn Away From EU Treaty As Referendum Nears
By Mark John in Brussels and Foreign Staff,
The Scotsman, UK,
7 June, 2008.
A SURGE in the number of Irish voters planning to vote No on the
European Union's reform treaty sent shock waves through Brussels
yesterday.
Ireland is the only one of the EU's 27 states holding a referendum on
the reforms, with a vote set this Thursday. An opinion poll showing
opposition had dramatically hardened brought warnings of a defeat that
would set off a "chain reaction".
The Treaty of Lisbon sets out to reform the EU after it nearly doubled
in size. It contains many proposals from the EU's failed constitution,
which voters in France and the Netherlands shot down in 2005.
They include a long-term president of the European Council of EU
leaders, a stronger foreign policy chief with a real diplomatic
service, a more democratic voting system and more say for national and
European parliaments.
But a survey of 1,000 voters conducted for the Irish Times showed 35
per cent planned to vote No, up from only 17 per cent in the same poll
three weeks ago, a surge that has doubled the number against the
treaty. The Yes camp stood at 30 per cent, down from 35 per cent.
Sup****ters of the reform treaty say it will forge a stronger European
Union. But there is no alternative in place if the treaty is defeated.
"If the No vote wins there will be a cry of pain from the rest of the
EU. We've been struggling to reform for years and there is no prospect
of renegotiating the treaty," said the Liberal Democrat MEP Andrew
Duff.
"People are very scared in Brussels, because it is going to be a real
mess if the Irish vote No," said Jose Ignacio Torreblanca, senior
research fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations think
tank. "A No vote would unleash a sort of chain reaction," he said.
Britain and others could suspend ratification, leaving the EU to
soldier on with old decision-making structures straining under the
weight of 27 member states, he added.
The EU's 26 other members are ratifying the do***ent through their
national parliaments and administrations, but Ireland requires all EU
treaties to be ratified by referendum.
A No vote on Thursday could turn a meeting of EU leaders the following
week into a crisis summit and put a cloud over the incoming French EU
presidency.
The Irish finance minister, Brian Lenihan, said yesterday the poll
showed that the public was being confused by a wide range of fringe
anti-EU pressure groups.
They have plastered Dublin with posters warning that the treaty will
permit other EU countries to dictate policies to Ireland, including
raising its business tax rates and legalising abortion. All the claims
were nonsense, Mr Lenihan said.
But despite backing from farmers and other lobbies, some treaty
sup****ters say the Yes campaign has struggled to explain the benefits
of the treaty.
Source:
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/politics/Irish-turn-away-from-EU.416=
2422.jp
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Irish "No" Camp: EU Treaty Bad For Democracy
By Jonathan Saul
Reuters,
6 June, 2008.
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Critics of the European Union reform treaty in
Ireland, which will vote on the do***ent on June 12, are a diverse
group united by the idea it would undermine democracy.
Opponents include pacifists, anti-abortionists, nationalists and a
handful of business people who share the view that Ireland and its
people will be left with a weaker voice.
A new opinion poll on Friday indicated their campaign may succeed.
Rejection from Ireland, the only EU country to hold a referendum on
the pact, could unravel years of wrangling over how the fast-expanding
bloc should be run.
"On the democracy issue, across the 'No' campaigners, you will find
that is a key concern emerging," Mary Lou McDonald, a European
Parliament deputy for Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein, said in an
interview.
The "No" camp argues the treaty will give more powers to the EU,
strengthen larger states at the expense of smaller ones and leave
loopholes enabling the bloc to compromise Irish neutrality and dilute
its control over tax, trade and abortion.
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen has accused the treaty's opponents of
spreading fear and confusion by campaigning on extraneous issues not
affected by it. In some cases independent voices have agreed with him.
Ireland's referendum watchdog, tasked with informing the public about
the issues, and the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin have rejected
concerns the treaty will open the way for the EU to weaken Ireland's
strict abortion and euthanasia laws.
"ANTI-DEMOCRATIC"
Think-tank Libertas, headed by businessman Declan Ganley, believes the
treaty gives up power to "an unelected elite in Brussels" and that it
is little more than a rehash of the EU constitution rejected by French
and Dutch voters in 2005.
"The fact that less than 4 million people in Ireland should ... shove
this thing down the throats of almost half a billion citizens of
Europe who are not being given a say on the issue ... would be anti-
democratic in itself," Ganley told Reuters.
Opponents say smaller states will see their share of votes shrink on
the decision-making European Council as it is weighted according to
population size. They also object to states losing permanent
representation on the European Commission executive.
Cowen said Ireland had ensured Commission posts would rotate equally
between all countries, regardless of their size.
"What we have achieved in this treaty ... is the whole question of
expressing equality of treatment for all countries," he told
broadcaster RTE on Friday.
Pro-treaty parties say that as well as strengthening EU leader****p,
the pact will give national parliaments a say in drafting laws,
reviewing proposals, and demanding amendments when at least one-third
of them object.
"No" campaigners say whichever way the vote goes, they have at least
ensured a proper debate in a country where almost the entire political
establishment is backing the treaty.
"We have forced them at least to some extent to actually knuckle down
and deal with concrete issues," said Sinn Fein's McDonald. "People are
in the business of deciding."
Source:
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL0642269220080606?sp=3D=
true
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The EU Reveals Its Contempt For Voters
Nicolas Sarkozy is leading calls for an EU 'army'
By Daily Mail Comment
Last updated at 2:50 AM on 07th June 2008
Slowly but surely, the hidden agenda of the European Union's foreign
policy elite, led by France, becomes clear. They want an EU 'army',
'hard power' and a grand new military headquarters.
Yes, reference was made to the Army in the Lisbon Treaty - which, of
course, was opposed by the great mass of British public opinion -
but only now is the scale of Nicolas Sarkozy's plan becoming clear.
The French President wants a direct rival to Nato, the body which has
kept peace in Europe and the rest of the world for the past 60 years.
Not only would this threaten our special relation****p with the US, but
also arguably world security.
We have had ample examples from the past of those EU countries who
prefer restricting their troops to peace keeping or reconstruction,
and eschew standing and fighting.
Take Afghanistan: Why is it Britain has more troops than any other
country in Europe sup****ting the Americans?
What is truly depressing is that the British public will not even have
the op****tunity to object to this exercise in self-aggrandisement. It
will be progressed through an obscure clause buried in the Lisbon
Treaty (otherwise known as the EU constitution).
However, it is just possible that Lisbon itself could be scuppered
next week when the Irish public are given a chance to vote. Latest
opinion polls suggest a 'No' vote and - if one nation refuses to
ratify the treaty - it falls.
Don't hold your breath. If the verdict does go against the Irish
Government, they are likely to simply try again until they get the
desired result, as they did when voters initially rejected the Treaty
of Nice in 2003.
At least the Irish have a semblance of decency in these matters. Not
so Britain. Since Labour decided - in defiance of its manifesto
pledge - there would be no referendum on the Lisbon Treaty here, it
has been an exercise in Parliamentary rubber-stamping, to be completed
by Peers next week.
Meanwhile, a second British MEP is revealed to have paid his wife and
daughter a re****ted =A3758,000 for 'secretarial and sup****t services',
following the revelation earlier this week that Giles Chichester had
channelled =A3445,000 in allowances through a family firm.
The insidious way a European Army is being imposed, along with the
greed of MEPs, have one thing in common: both reveal the contempt the
EU has for ordinary voters.
But then what do you expect from an institution that is undemocratic,
unaccountable. . . and corrupt.
Source:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1024837/The-EU-reveals-conte=
mpt-voters.html
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The EU Must Be Made To Listen To Concerns
Daily Telegraph, UK,
7 June, 2008.
Next Thursday, the people of Ireland will vote in a referendum on
whether to ratify the Treaty of Lisbon, the only citizens of the
European Union to have been given a direct say in the matter because
their country's constitution requires that they should. What will
happen if they vote "No"?
The European Commission says there is no "Plan B", but the truth is
that the EU will simply steam on its merry way towards the creation of
a superstate, the "ever-closer Union" of the Treaty of Rome, whatever
its people want.
It did so after the French and the Dutch rejected the original
constitution, of which the Lisbon Treaty is almost a carbon copy. It
did so after the Irish last voted no in a referendum, on the Treaty of
Nice in 1991. Then, the people of the Emerald Isle were sent back to
the polls to vote the right way, which they duly did.
Those who believe a "No" vote in Ireland will somehow halt the EU
juggernaut have clearly not been paying attention over the past 30
years.
Even before the Lisbon Treaty is ratified, with its removal of vetoes
over justice and home affairs matters, its creation of a European
presidency and the arrogation of further powers from sovereign
national parliaments to the centre, the next stage of this
aggrandisement is already being planned.
The French government, which will hold the rotating presidency for the
next six months, wants to move ahead with the creation of a European
standing army, something not likely to appeal to the scrupulously
neutral Irish as they prepare to vote.
Indeed, a poll in yesterday's Irish Times for the first time showed
the "No" campaign in the lead, a remarkable achievement given the
almost unanimous backing from the Irish establishment for a "Yes".
Needless to say, the Irish government greeted the poll with horror.
Brian Lenihan, the country's finance minister, said: "If Ireland votes
'No', we will do incalculable damage to this country, because the
signal we're sending to our biggest market is that we are not
interested in it."
This sort of scaremongering has characterised the development of this
profoundly undemocratic union over three decades or more. Did France
stop trading with Germany when the former voted in a referendum
against the constitution?
What happened was that the Eurocrats were forced to go back and think
again. The fact that they came up with a replacement that bore a
remarkable resemblance to the rejected do***ent was testament to their
arrogance and disdain for the opinion of the people; it is to be hoped
they would have difficulty pulling off the same trick again.
Would an Irish "No" vote next week make much difference? Ninety-five
per cent of the Lisbon Treaty's provisions would still go ahead; many
have been implemented already. Other measures, such as the new voting
weights or the single presidency, would be quietly introduced at an
inter-governmental conference once the dust has settled. And the
Eurocrats will certainly be reluctant ever to risk again asking the
people a question that they keep answering the wrong way.
Then again, an Irish "No" - and we fervently hope for one - will
strengthen the hand of those in this country who wish to see a long-
overdue renegotiation of Britain's relation****p with the EU: not as a
prelude to withdrawal, but to create a newer and looser arrangement
based around free trade and ease of movement, rather than further
political, economic and military integration.
With Stuart Wheeler's judicial review of Labour's refusal to grant a
referendum starting on Monday in the High Court, and the House of
Lords voting on the same issue on Wednesday, the next seven days could
be of great significance for this country's future within the EU.
("Telegraph view" is written by our team of leader writers and
commentators. This team includes David Hughes, Philip Johnston, Simon
Heffer, Janet Daley, Con Coughlin, Robert Colvile, Iain Martin and
Alex Singleton.)
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=3D/opinion/2008/0=
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