France had Working Plan to deal with Irish Lisbon Referendum Defeat by July 13th

<!– @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } –>

Mr Sarkozy takes over the EU’s rotating presidency in July and will be tasked with resurrecting, for a second time, Lisbon Treaty proposals first contained in the European Constitution rejected by French and Dutch voters three years ago.
Diplomats and officials have [...]

Is a Second Referendum in Ireland on the Cards?

Ireland must hold a second referendum on the Lisbon treaty, Nicolas Sarkozy told colleagues on July 16th, 2008 in the clearest sign of a European Union plan to try to save the document ratified by 21 other countries.
A second vote would have to take place in an attempt to reverse Ireland’s rejection of the treaty [...]

US – European friendship Exercise in June marred by Ireland’s No to Lisbon according to Council on Foreign Relations (CFR): Ireland the “skunk at the party”

Charles A. Kupchan, the Council on Foreign Relations’s (CFR) Europe expert, stated that President Bush’s June farewell trip to Europe produced statements of friendship and partnership “hard to imagine a few short years ago.” The Council on Foreign Relations is a nonpartisan foreign policy membership organization founded in 1921 and based at 58 East 68th [...]

Second Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty promoted at Oireachtas level

MEP Gay Mitchell has questioned whether the Irish people should ever again be asked to adjudicate on complex European issues.
The Fine Gael MEP asked whether a referendum was “the right vehicle” for issues such as the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.
“People will say that he would say that, because he was on the losing side,” [...]

France moves to intregrate EU Defence Capabilities

French Defence Minister Hervé Morin has announced a strategy to increase the EU’s military capabilities during his country’s presidency of the union.
He also stated that France had no hidden agenda to undermine Nato and pledged that it would rejoin the organisation’s military command structure.
“Any hesitation expressed by some states in the past that there was [...]

French President Sarkozy to postpone official visit to Ireland

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that he is to postpone a planned visit to Ireland to discuss the EU Lisbon Treaty.
Mr Sarkozy, who has so far refused to be drawn on whether there should be a second Irish vote on the Lisbon Treaty, was scheduled to visit on 11th July. He will now visit [...]

French President will argue for a second Lisbon Referendum for Ireland

The French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said that without ratification of the Lisbon Treaty there can be no further enlargement of the European Union.
Sarkozy was speaking on French television as France prepares to began the six month French Presidency of the European Union in July.
Commenting on Ireland’s rejection of the Lisbon Treaty on 12th June, [...]

The Ratification Process for the Lisbon Treaty

The Treaty of Lisbon was officially signed by the Heads of State and Government of the 27 EU Member States on 13th December 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal.

To come into force, the Treaty of Lisbon has to be ratified by all 27 Member States. In the conclusions of the European Council on 14th December 2007, the [...]

Lisbon Treaty Ratification to Proceed in Britain

The High Court in London has rejected a lawsuit that sought to block Britain’s ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.
The treaty was defeated in a referendum in Ireland earlier this month.
A businessman had brought the case to try to force the British government to block ratification claiming there was a ‘legitimate expectation’ of a public vote.

The [...]

What would the Lisbon Treaty really have meant for Ireland?

These are just some of the Key Points:

1. Loss of Sovereignty
The Treaty provides for the appointment of a permanent EU president, elected by European leaders. It also creates an EU foreign minister, termed the “High Representative”.

This official will have the power to create foreign policy without consulting member states (Article 18).

2. Elimination of National [...]