Tuesday, 18 November 2008

Ireland mulls new EU vote, bolstered by poll
EUbusiness (press release) - Richmond,England,UK
(DUBLIN) - Ireland will decide in the next few weeks whether to hold a second referendum on the EU's stalled reform treaty, it said Monday, ...
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Irish Voters Would Back Modified EU Treaty
Javno.hr - Zagreb,Croatia
Irish voters would support the European Union's reform treaty in a second referendum if new clauses addressing some of their objections were bolted onto the ...
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EurActiv
Minister: 'Institutional limbo' to overshadow 2009 elections
EurActiv - Brussels,Belgium
The "institutional limbo" surrounding the Lisbon Treaty may lead to "new euroscepticism across Europe" during next year's European elections, according to ...
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Highlights of the Strasbourg 17-20 November plenary session
European Parliament (press release) - EU
The draft Lisbon Treaty and its Article 189 of the TFEU provide the EU with a legal framework for translating Council resolutions into policy initiatives. ...
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Constitutional matters
By Helen(Helen)
It seems odd to me that the Irish people might not get a little angry that, for the second time, they have been told to vote again on an EU treaty, as if their first vote was not quite good enough. (It isn't, of course, because it went ...
BrugesGroupBlog - http://brugesgroup.blogspot.com/
Euro currency: Convergence criteria
By Grahnlaw(Grahnlaw)
A readable Article 140 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) is found in the consolidated versions of the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, published in the ...
Grahnlaw - http://grahnlaw.blogspot.com/
Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/17/2008
By Baron Bodissey(Baron Bodissey)
How, then, will the Eurocrats get their treaty? By a combination of parliamentary ratification, executive fiat and judicial activism. Chunks of the Lisbon Treaty will be unanimously decreed by the 27 governments to be in force, ...
Gates of Vienna - http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/