Wednesday, Feb 8th 2012
As part of its awareness raising campaign, EAPN Ireland has published a three minute motion-graphic entitled ‘the Lisbon Treaty’s Social Side’ (see below). The production aims to give a brief overview of how the Lisbon Treaty impacts on social issues and the direction of the European Union.
“EAPN Ireland is concerned that the campaign is [...]
UPDATE: A response to the claim made by Blair Horan of the Charter Group about references made to Article 52
As originally written, there was a minor error in this article in the wording of a paragraph of Article 52. The correct wording of Article 52 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights as written in 2000 [...]
This is an analysis of the background to the forthcoming Lisbon Treaty referendum which was originally written for Znet.
Here we go again
These days in Ireland, people are mostly either a ’Yes’ or a ‘No’. There are also, crucially, the ‘Dont Knows’. This situation has come about because the disobedient citizens of Ireland defeated the European Union’s proposed Lisbon Treaty in a referendum [...]
Lisbon Treaty Whup-Ass
The problem with the various campaigns around the Lisbon Treaty is that in order to get a simple message across to a wide audience you have to reduce a complicated topic to a simple black and white argument. However, simplification does not mean basic distortion, like using a dodgy doctored photo originally used [...]
Murder and Suicide and the Lisbon Treaty
You don’t have to be a millenarianist to assume that, if the majority of Irish voters say No to Lisbon a second time, the apocalypse won’t be far behind.
Today in the Irish Times we had two associations of a No vote for Lisbon with murder and suicide. The [...]
Although the debate about the Lisbon Treaty is starting to hot up there is one matter that has not got that much attention, yet, perhaps because it is for an election which may or may not proceed. Should the Irish people vote yes in the Lisbon Treaty, however, the post of President of the European [...]
This article analyses the ‘assurances‘ in the specific area of security and defence that the government is persuading EU leaders to sign up to, ostensibly to allay concerns in Ireland about the Lisbon Treaty. These ‘assurances’ are, in reality, simply political statements that, in themselves, have no legal status. They are only legally valid if [...]
The category ‘immigrant’ has been systematically substituted for the category ‘worker’, only to be supplanted in its turn by the category of the ‘clandestine’ or illegal alien. First workers, then immigrants, finally illegal aliens. If we insist that we are actually talking about workers - and whether they have worked, are working, or no longer [...]
Debate and analysis about the meaning of Ireland’s vote on the Lisbon Treaty continues to tax the commentariat in Ireland and abroad. Next week, the topic will once again become the focus of debate as the Government has suggested today that it is considering putting together a forum where both sides of the campaign can [...]
The European Commission’s Eurobarometer report is available (PDF)
Background to the Referendum
On June 12th, 2008, the Irish electorate was presented with the opportunity to vote “yes” or “no” to the Lisbon Treaty. This was the seventh referendum on European integration in Ireland in the last 36 years, so EU referendums are very much part [...]
