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Rewritten European Union Constitution Buried?

category international | eu | other press author Monday June 23, 2008 19:14author by John Meehan - CAEUC

Irish Voters Drive Stake Through the Heart of the Lisbon Treaty

Voters in the Republic of Ireland drove a stake through the heart of the Lisbon Treaty, a rewrite of the European Union Constitution, in a Referendum which took place on June 12 – The result was announced on Friday June 13 2008.

No campaigners made this a memorably unlucky date for EU boss Jose Manuel Barroso and his gang of privateers and wannabe military adventurers – a ruling class élite still smarting from its 2005 European Union Constitution referendum defeats in Holland and France.

The No side won with 862,415 votes (53.4%) against 752,451 (46.6%) for the Yes of the 1,621,037 people who voted (turnout was 53.1%).

An article on the Irish Lisbon Treaty Referendum Result is here :

http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?page=print_a...=1489

This article, and many others with varying points of view can be accessed on the website of the Campaign Against the EU Constitution -

http://www.sayno.ie

http://www.caeuc.org/

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