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Post Lisbon Treaty Referendum Research Findings (.pdf)
What were the reasons for the No vote in Ireland? This official report suggests that it was a lack of knowledge/understanding/information...
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more fromwww.dfa.ie
Stanley’s blog » Ireland: three key questions
Interesting thoughts by Stanley Crossick: Why ‘No’? - What is the solution? - What can all we learn from the Irish experience?
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more fromcrossick.blogactiv.eu
Centre for European Reform: Tough choices to avoid euro-paralysis
Hugo Brady proposes the most likely outcome of the "EU crisis" after the 'No' in Ireland. And he mentiones one interesting point: "Many voters do not see the continuity between EU treaties and think that old guarantees are over-written by new texts."
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more fromcentreforeuropeanreform.blogspot.com
Timothy Garton Ash: Instead of bullying the Irish, Europe should be working on plan D - and E
Timothy Garton Ash actually favours the "Nice plus" arrangement.
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more fromwww.guardian.co.uk
A better way with referendums
Interesting idea: Is it possible to introduce a more deliberative approach when holding a referendum? Does "deliberative polling" make citizens more knowledgeable?
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more fromwww.ft.com
The referendum: populism vs democracy | openDemocracy
The idea of the referendum as an instrument of the people's will rests on pre-democratic foundations, says George Schöpflin.
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more fromwww.opendemocracy.net
So much for bringing Europe closer to the people
Everyone is right and wrong at the same time...a tragic dilemma!
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more fromguests.blogactiv.eu
The Irish ‘no’ and the EU’s “nuclear”
Daniel Gros (CEPS) argues for "a radical solution – the other EU members should propose to leave the old EU and create a new one with the Lisbon Treaty as its founding document."
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more fromwww.voxeu.org
The European Council on Foreign Relations | Ireland's creative destruction
Daniel Korski calls European leaders to save "one of the main ideas behind the Treaty - to make the EU a more effective foreign policy player". The rest is truly depressing: "Real business is likely to be pushed aside and a new bout of Euro-pessimism could set in."
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more fromwww.ecfr.eu
Wolfgang Munchau - Europe’s hardball plan B for the Lisbon treaty
"An alternative would be a referendum with a differently worded question, such as: “Do you want to remain in the EU on the basis of the Lisbon treaty?” Of course, this bundles two questions many people would like to answer separately. Yes, stay in the EU, No to Lisbon. But folding the two into a single question is politically more honest because it is Ireland’s only real-world choice."
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more fromwww.ft.com
Robert Kagan - In Europe, a Slide Toward Irrelevance
Robert Kagan's take on the Irish 'NO' - as usual with too much 'black or white' thinking but also with a few good points.
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more fromwww.washingtonpost.com
Fintan O'Toole: The fear factory devastated Ireland's flaccid political class
"You forgot us in Shannon." -- "Our sons are too good-looking for the army" --"rightwing Catholics" -- "leftwing anti-militarists" -- "a mysterious group that emerged from nowhere with a great deal of money to spend" -- "Imported British Euroscepticism" -- "a very efficient factory of fears" -- "an extensive menu of anxieties" -- "the scattergun of negativity only had to hit one sensitive spot"
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more fromwww.guardian.co.uk
Will Hutton: Europe must not be derailed by lies and disinformation
"On top of these there is the political problem that the treaty can't be rewritten to accommodate specific Irish concerns because it already does; Ireland's 'no' campaigners told lies. The voters' great concerns had been met. There is a specific protocol that guarantees Ireland's neutrality and excuses it from membership of any joint European defence effort, if any surfaces. There is no possibility of Ireland being told to enforce abortion. And all states have autonomy over tax policy."
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more fromwww.guardian.co.uk
The Irish “no” and the rich-poor/urban-rural divide
"The Irish ‘no’ – like the 2005 French ‘non’ – shows a clear poor/rich and urban/rural divide. Working-class and rural voters are systematically voting against further European integration. European leaders should take note."
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more fromwww.voxeu.org
DJ Nozem: Euroblog Coverage: The Irish 'No'
A handy round-up about the Irish 'No' in the blogosphere...
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more fromdjnozem.blogspot.com
Neutrality, abortion and Dustin the turkey threaten to cause Irish referendum upset - The Guardian
"It is an unlikely alliance: ultra-rightwing Catholics, traditional nationalists, pro-American free marketeers and the far left. Add in a pop star and a turkey puppet called Dustin and you have a force which threatens to sink a reform project designed to transform how nearly 500 million Europeans are governed."
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Lisbon Treaty faces rejection as No vote doubles in latest poll
It is gonna be a close race. It seems that No Voters don't know anything about the treaty: "The reason most often cited by No voters is that they don't know what they are voting for or they don't understand the treaty - with 30 per cent of No voters listing this as the main reason for their decision."
I have argued before that referendums and uninformed publics do not go well together, moreover referenda over several hundred pages of legal text will never cause any enthusiasm...
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more fromwww.ireland.com
The amusing approach to the Treaty of Lisbon - the spoofer’s guide
Quite a funny guide...I wonder how many people in Ireland will actually read it...
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more fromwww.jonworth.eu
Why Ireland must say ‘Yes’ to Lisbon
Andrew Duff (MEP) on the Lisbon Treaty and the upcoming referendum in Ireland and why the Irish eurosceptics are wrong.
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more fromwww.ft.com
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