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No side in Lisbon Treaty Referendum in Ireland going strong
guardian.co.uk — Ireland's referendum on the EU wide treaty of Lisbon is falling more to the No side early reports indicate. Thank Christ too, let's hope.
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- rupaw, on 06/15/2008, -0/+1Europe seems to have a united response to Ireland, if you read the newspapers today. It says: F*CK YOU UNGRATEFUL BASTARDS! So in an ironic way, Ireland has united Europe. That's beautiful ... :-)
"Nepszabadsag" (Hungary): The situation is absurd. Less than one million people take more than 450 million people hostage.
"La Stampa" (Italy): Ireland - a country that seems on the surface as a reliable partner to its European neighbours - shows its dark anti-European face.
"Corriere della Sera" (Italy): "This is a very difficult situation. Europe needs to ask Dublin to withdraw from the EU and stop derail the common project."
"The Irish Times" (Ireland): "Shock for Europe with catastrophic dimensions ..."
"Basler Zeitung" (Switzerland): "The problem is clear: A small country with less than 3 million voters can prevent a much needed European reform even when all other countries are in favor of it."
"Tages-Anzeiger" (Switzerland): "The EU is split. 18 countries voted for the reform. Ireland is against it. The result is a big blockade of Europe"
"Trouw" (Netherlands): The most logic conclusion is now to force Ireland to face the consequences of their decision and ask them to withdraw from the European Union."
"La Libre Belgique" (Belgium): "Ireland mistrusts the EU"
"De Morgen" (Belgium): "Even the Irish EU-representative admitted that he didn't even bother to read the treaty. The European dream dissolves slowly."
"Information" (Denmark): "Ireland said now twice within a decade NO to a EU-treaty. The question is obvious: Maybe the Irish don't want to be part of the Union and prefer a status like Norway and Switzerland to a full membership."
"die tageszeitung" (taz) (Germany): "Ireland was Europe's sick and poor man until the 80s. Unemployment was 20% and the countries debt was the highest of any European nation. The European Union pumped 2.5 billion Euros every year into Ireland. But this was not all: the European courts forced Ireland also to become an open society, where previously homosexuality was a crime in Ireland, condoms were forbidden, abortions and divorces banned."
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