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Article: Lisbon Treaty referendum
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- July 17, 2009
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Madam, - When the then taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, returned from
having signed the Treaty of Lisbon in December, 2007 he assured us
all that everything would be OK and that we need have no worries
about agreeing to the ratification of the treaty.
Following the rejection of the European Union constitution (of
which the Lisbon Treaty is a rehash) by the French and Dutch people
in 2005 an agreement had been reached, he said, that the anthem of
the EU and the EU flag - symbols of EU statehood - would be
"dropped" in order to allay the fears of the people who feared the
increasing power of the European Union.
Yet when the new European Parliament session opened in Strasbourg
recently a detachment of ...