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By: Dick Roche Suggests a Second Referendum on Lisbon | Heard Any

Dick Roche Suggests a Second Referendum on Lisbon | Heard Any — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:12:03 +0000

[...] proceed with this might fracture the Euro-consensus beyond repair. Something we have noted reguarly on the blog. They have reiterated that a second run is out of the question if the voters are voting on the same [...]

By: Irish Election » Dick Roche Suggests a Second Referendum on Lisbon

Irish Election » Dick Roche Suggests a Second Referendum on Lisbon — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:45:49 +0000

[...] The tenor to the statement from Labour suggests that the decision on how to proceed with this might fracture the Euro-consensus beyond repair. Something we have noted reguarly on the blog. [...]

By: Future Taoiseach

Future Taoiseach — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:57:08 +0000

I hope you are right. With 80% of our legislation being handed down from Brussels, it seems absurd that there has been little or no debate on it till now. The Brussels accounts have also not been signed-off on for 13 years by the EU Court of Auditors, and the fact that officials like Martha Andreassen and Paul von Buitenen were sacked for blowing the whistle on the problems with the Brussels accounts underlines what happens when too much power is concentrated in the hands of the unelected bureaucrats in the Commission. If a FF govt were responsible for such shenanigans, FG and Labour would certainly have something to say on it, yet they have hardly a word to speak on it in Brussels. Hopefully this signifies the beginning of a long-overdue debate in which dissent and questioning of Brussels and European integration will become more mainstreamed in the party-system.