Irish PM summoned to explain his failure to his EU masters
The head of the European Union's current presidency called on Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Cowen to explain his country's rejection of the Lisbon treaty on Friday, increasing the pressure on the already-beleaguered Taoiseach, or premier. EU heads of state and government are set to meet in Brussels on Thursday, and on that day "I will invite the Irish Prime Minister to explain the reasons for the rejection of the treaty by the Irish people," Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa, whose country holds the bloc's rotating presidency, said in a statement. "We will discuss the situation and look for ways to move forward," he said. snip http://tinyurl.com/6jr3ef Will it be the firing squad? Or just Siberia?

they arn`t very bright these euro politicians are they am i right in thinking that the irish have just voted NO TO THE LISBON TREATY what dont they understand about that :roll:

Indeed. What they do understand, and what we must understand, is that they are not ever going to give this up. I agree with TJ. We need to leave the EU. Ain't gonna happen though.

This EU crap scares me a little bit. The most bothersome thing is that it has the shell of a world government, although it applies only to the Europeans at this time. It legitimizes the idea that an individual country can give up some of it’s sovereignty for the common good of the people. I think that idea will be very damaging to freedom in the long run. It goes beyond the traditional idea of military and trade alliances, which works for the most part.

We've seen it all before. USSR - a forced Union of States. Yogoslavia - same. In each case the individual states retained their sense of nationalism, and once the union began to crack, war rose it's ugly head. Now each of those states is independent again but still suffering from the effects of the forced union. I was surprised to find that a Euro issued in France is not accepted in Spain, and vice versa, despite the alleged single currency. Unofficial polls show that over 70% of Germans did not want the single currency. The peoples of each State are so opposed to recent moves that their governments, with the exception of Ireland, refuse to give them a vote. A united Europe under one central government is doomed to failure. Nationalism will survive. The English will remain English. Italians will remain Italians. The majority will never be true citizens of the EU. If forced to be so, the people will eventually rebel. Mankind never learns from history.