Monday, September 21, 2009
The Lisbon Treaty. - WSJ.com
The IS a BIG deal.
European bureaucrats are trying to gain control of significant portions of what is now the local countries' government functions.
That basically means that people who are distant from the circumstances would be making decisions, and that the citizens will lose much of their electoral ability to decide who truly represents them.
Let's hope the Irish put the hammer down on this once again...
European bureaucrats are trying to gain control of significant portions of what is now the local countries' government functions.
That basically means that people who are distant from the circumstances would be making decisions, and that the citizens will lose much of their electoral ability to decide who truly represents them.
Let's hope the Irish put the hammer down on this once again...
In the Wall Street Journal, Brian M. Carney writes about the Irish role in the upcoming Lisbon Treaty referendum:
"In three weeks' time, Ireland will, for a moment, hold the fate of Europe in its hands. Through a quirk of Irish constitutional procedure, on Oct. 2 the Republic of Ireland will be the only European Union nation to hold a referendum on a treaty to revamp how the EU, home to half a billion people, does business. The Lisbon Treaty, therefore, will stand or fall on the votes of perhaps one and a half million Irishmen and women."
