EU Declines Comment on Irish 'Lisbon Treaty' Polls

European Commission spokesman Johannes Laitenberger responds to a question about polls in Ireland pointing towards fading support for the Lisbon Treaty on the future of the European Union.


Media reports have said that the number of people who say they will vote yes has fallen 8 percentage points, to 46 percent, in the first major poll, while a quarter of the voters don't know yet how they are going to vote.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/04/irish-poll-slump-lisbon-treaty

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[TheEuropeanAgenda]

The Lisbon Treaty would, if ratified, be a self-amending Treaty which would permit the EU Prime Ministers and Presidents to shift most remaining EU policy areas where unanimity is required and a national veto still exists - for example on tax harmonisation - to qualified majority voting on the EU Council of Ministers, without need of further EU Treaties or referendums(Art.48 TEU).

PLEASE VOTE NO!

[ssvalhall]

Irish Folks ! As long as the European Union[E.U.] allows

the Big Brother[United States] a Big_Ear & Snoopy Dog

operation , S.W.I.F.T. , on all Your streams of money flow

and P.O.-Box letter-secrets, e-mails and electronic traffic,

say Ney/No/Never to the Lissabon Treaty. Folks! Warriors

from Dublin ! The E.U. wants to use emergency law and

Joined German-French Army Brigades IF Irish Folks stand Up for economical fairness THEN the E.U. speaks of silencing social unrest

[DerPortugiese15]

@odltirigu I know that it is a bit late for this reply but your statement is simply false - Just to state an example for the modifications of the Treaty after the Irish "No": Previously, it was planned not to have a Commissioner by member state (which would be equal to 27) but only 18 which was one of the reasons why the Irish voted no: They feared to be eventually excluded of the EU executive. Before the second Irish vote, the Treaty was modified in this case. And it's only one example.

[Sociocidal]

poland

[odltirigu]

All the Irish got were clarifications. We voted on the SAME treaty. Not ONE word was changed in the treaty. Case closed, the sheep voted.

[DerPortugiese15]

It's not true that the Irish vote hadn't been respected. That's complete bullshit by the press and some politicians. After the first Irish referendum, the EU modified the Lisbon Treaty to adapt it more to the Irish interests. You didn't vote for the same Lisbon treaty now than some months ago.

And tell me: How serious can be a campaign which propagates: "If you don't know vote NO"?

[shayno125]

ireland approved the treaty now. i think its the czechs you should be looking at now :P

[Sambucca]

Dumb ass cunt. Have you even read the treaty? Most likely you have not, just like the majority of Yes campaigners. You clearly don't understand what the EU are trying to do. It's not about 'making things run more efficiently'. It's about power and control, a step towards a federal superstate and evntually a One World Government. Ireland was not the only EU country reluctant to sign this proposal. France and Holland voted NO but they were not listened to.

[TheSnoody]

Just kick Ireland's dumb ass out of the EU if they're going to be idiots and stand in the way Europe's future progress.....what assholes.

[phistobc]

Why doesn't Ireland simply resign from the EU? If they don't like it, they don't need to be part of it.

Just one question: which country was mostly benefiting in the past years from the EU?

[jackflashmccash]

Vote No and This time when we do respect the vote of the people. Vote no tomorrow for democracy, accountability and transparency!

[odltirigu]

The answer lies in your question. Let the Oireachtas represent the people????? The people voted No.

I assume very few Irish peope have read the treaty and obviously not many members of the Oireachtas. Brian Cowen himself admitted he didnt read it last time around LOL