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Postby GAVCARoCOM » Sat Jun 14, 2008 3:40 am

BRUSSELS: European Union leaders struggled to find a "Plan B" yesterday after Irish voters rejected the bloc's reforming Lisbon Treaty. Irish voters rejected the treaty by 53.4 per cent to 46.6pc.

Presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers across the 27 nation club expressed regret at the vote and said new efforts must be made to get the treaty through after admitting that opponents in Ireland had won, European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso insisted that other countries should continue the ratification of the treaty. But it was Barroso who said last month that there is "no Plan B" if the treaty was defeated.

If you try to put a lot of power in one place it will collapse
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Re: New EU Crisis

Postby Bill » Sat Jun 14, 2008 11:08 am

GAVCARoCOM wrote:.

If you try to put a lot of power in one place it will collapse


Bloody hell Gav ~ steady on son ~ that's the most intelligent statement you have made on this forum for ages ~ keep it up .

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Re: New EU Crisis

Postby Oracle » Sat Jun 14, 2008 11:40 am

GAVCARoCOM wrote:BRUSSELS: European Union leaders struggled to find a "Plan B" yesterday after Irish voters rejected the bloc's reforming Lisbon Treaty. Irish voters rejected the treaty by 53.4 per cent to 46.6pc.

Presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers across the 27 nation club expressed regret at the vote and said new efforts must be made to get the treaty through after admitting that opponents in Ireland had won, European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso insisted that other countries should continue the ratification of the treaty. But it was Barroso who said last month that there is "no Plan B" if the treaty was defeated.

If you try to put a lot of power in one place it will collapse


Maybe the power is distributed .... Hence better solutions can be found, even if they take longer as more views are considered ..... :wink:

But agreed, we do not need / want Turkey sticking her nose in too! :D
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Re: New EU Crisis

Postby CanDiaz » Sat Jun 14, 2008 1:41 pm

GAVCARoCOM wrote:

Presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers across the 27 nation club expressed regret at the vote and said new efforts must be made to get the treaty through after admitting that opponents in Ireland had won


Why have a vote then? You have to be nuts to want in on this.
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Re: New EU Crisis

Postby Sotos » Sat Jun 14, 2008 3:33 pm

CanDiaz wrote:
GAVCARoCOM wrote:

Presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers across the 27 nation club expressed regret at the vote and said new efforts must be made to get the treaty through after admitting that opponents in Ireland had won


Why have a vote then? You have to be nuts to want in on this.


The funny thing with this kind of referendum is that if people vote "no" they can ask them again and again until they change their minds. If they vote "yes" then nobody will ask them again if they changed their mind! :roll:
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Re: New EU Crisis

Postby CanDiaz » Sat Jun 14, 2008 4:05 pm

Sotos wrote:
CanDiaz wrote:
GAVCARoCOM wrote:

Presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers across the 27 nation club expressed regret at the vote and said new efforts must be made to get the treaty through after admitting that opponents in Ireland had won


Why have a vote then? You have to be nuts to want in on this.


The funny thing with this kind of referendum is that if people vote "no" they can ask them again and again until they change their minds. If they vote "yes" then nobody will ask them again if they changed their mind! :roll:


Like i said, Nuts.
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Rapscallions

Postby MrBlueSkye » Sat Jun 14, 2008 4:17 pm

No audit for what is it? 9 years? It's a huge Brussels gravy train riding on the rails of an annual multi trillion Euro public purse. To be an M.E.P is to live the life of luxury.
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Re: New EU Crisis

Postby GAVCARoCOM » Sat Jun 14, 2008 6:57 pm

Bill wrote:
GAVCARoCOM wrote:.

If you try to put a lot of power in one place it will collapse


Bloody hell Gav ~ steady on son ~ that's the most intelligent statement you have made on this forum for ages ~ keep it up .

Bill


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Postby GAVCARoCOM » Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:12 am

SHAMELESS EU leaders are pretending Ireland’s NO vote never happened.

They will ignore the will of the Irish people to press on with grandiose plans for a Euro empire.
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Re: Rapscallions

Postby miltiades » Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:03 am

MrBlueSkye wrote:No audit for what is it? 9 years? It's a huge Brussels gravy train riding on the rails of an annual multi trillion Euro public purse. To be an M.E.P is to live the life of luxury.

I agree , with one addition. ""To be an M.P is to live the life of luxury coupled with generosity towards your wife , your son and his boyfriend as was recently exposed , all paid for by the tax payer !
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