Posts Tagged ratification
Scrutiny and Irony
Posted by Pete Quentin in European Union on 29/01/2008
Europe Minister Jim Murphy recently gave “a guarantee that parliament can scrutinise the Lisbon Treaty” (mainly because he knows however much its members scrutinise the document they cannot amend even a single word of it and victory is assured by whip).
Could the Irish save OUR independence?
Posted by Pete Quentin in European Union on 22/01/2008
Parliament is currently debating the passing of yet more powers to the EU, through ratification of the successor treaty to the constitution, most eloquently described by Giscard d’Estaing, former French President and architect of the original document, as ‘the same letter; just in a different envelope’.