GEF @ 7:00 AM MST
Mary Lou tells EU leaders:
‘Let Ireland get on with our own referendum’
MARY LOU McDonald stood up in the European Parliament this week and told fellow MEPs to let the Irish people get on with their own referendum on the EU Treaty.
“2008 is set to be the European Union’s most decisive year,” the Sinn Féin Dublin MEP said on Tuesday, 18 December. “The Lisbon Treaty will shape the EU’s future irrevocably.
“Proponents of the Treaty state its purpose is to provide a mechanism to streamline decision-making powers for a burgeoning bureaucracy. This is not true.
“This is an ambitious political strategy to move member state decision-making areas such as taxation, foreign policy and social provisions from national parliaments to the institutions that remain beyond the democratic reach of ordinary people.”
She said that the EU Commission has made no secret of its desire to decide on matters relating to corporation tax and that, having secured jurisdiction in monetary policy the EU now has its sights set on fiscal policy.
“Provisions relating to national parliaments contained within the Treaty such as citizens’ petitions and the yellow card system are tokenistic and are of no meaningful value to member states,” she said.
The Dublin MEP maintained that it is ironic that the same champions in Ireland of such policies contained within all European treaties point the finger of blame at Brussels when the consequences are felt by ordinary people – the Brazilian beef and school water charges debacles being just two current examples of this.
McDonald left her EU parliamentary colleagues under no illusions:
“In Ireland we will have the opportunity to vote on this treaty. I suspect Bertie Ahern is envious of French and Dutch leaders, who can ignore the views of their citizens expressed so clearly in 2005.
“Repeatedly, Taoiseach Ahern and his Government cohorts pretend that our reputation of ‘good’ Europeans requires acceptance of this treaty. In fact, the values of democracy and the building of peace and respect for diversity, to which the EU is rhetorically committed, are best protected by good Europeans rejecting this bad treaty.
“Irish people do not need the ‘great and the good’ of Europe telling us there is no alternative to Lisbon. I have one simple message to EU leaders: If you are keen to be involved in a referendum campaign, organise one in your own country and leave us to get on with ours.”
Angela Merkel and the EU are as obvious as a canary in a coal mine..
Good article, GEF.
You seem to be taking more interest in this question than most people on this side of the pond. I have not heard a single one of my 150 plus colleages at work even mention the issue.
The UK long ago ceased to be an independent sovereign nation since joining what was then billed as a Common Market and in so doing our once thriving fishing industry has been ruined when late PM Edward Heath signed away our exclusive fishing rights in British waters.
Anthony,
Most Americans are in a state of Govt programming so they are Nation-Centric when it comes to world issues. This started way back in WW2 and has continued to this very day!
However, keeping up with Globalist Evildoers is very easy…
Just follow the corruption trails they leave behind!
Their New World Disorder will eventually fail because it’s based on corruption…To me they are just a fancy two-bit world syndicate, which is scum and villainy in a new package!
People should know that the real power of the EU lies in a just 10 nations…The Treaty of Brussels with 10 Nation States. WEU
Member countries: (modified Brussels Treaty – 1954)
All of these being members of both NATO and the European Union.
These are the only nations that have full voting rights.
* United Kingdom
* France
* Germany
* Italy
* Belgium
* Netherlands Netherlands
* Luxembourg
* Portugal (March 27, 1990)
* Spain (March 27, 1990)
* Greece (1995)
..and eventually the Vatican will rule them all and that’s why I call it the New Roman Empire!