Eline van den Broek, leader of the 2005 Dutch No to the EU Constitution campaign, speaks about the Irish Lisbon Treaty referendum at the Open Europe Dublin meeting 9 September 2009.

Gisela Stuart Labour MP at the Open Europe Dublin meeting 9 September 2009

This and more at europesaysno.org Youtube channel.

You are also kindly invited to send your comment (upper left side of the Europe Says No site) and encourage Irish voters to represent your interests and vote in your name as well.

British and Dutch North Sea oil & gas supplies are to be taken over by the EU under emergency plans revealed for the first time in Brussels on 8 January 2009.

Nigel Farage MEP (UKIP), Co-president of the Independence/Democracy Group in the European parliament comments on recent developments which are also closely connected to the ratification of the Renamed EU Constitution alias The Lisbon Treaty.

Ireland not serving citizens on Lisbon, says Ganley
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Asked why a second referendum in Ireland is required when this was not the case in France and the Netherlands after they rejected the Constitutional Treaty, Mr Leinen said: “The situation is different now than in June 2005, when there were two Nos in one week and seven more countries set to hold referendums.”

“But when all the countries say ‘Yes’, it’s legitimate to ask [the Irish] if that’s their last answer,” he argued at a press conference in Strasbourg.

“A second No would be a No, and then of course you could forget about the treaty. But a first No is volatile, let’s say, because it’s not a clear No against Europe. Here you have a diffuse coalition of Nos. We respect it, but we have to respect as well the Yes of the other member states,” Mr Leinen concluded.

We might as well add MEP Roger Helmer’s (UK) opinion from his last electronic newsletter:

Deceit and contempt: drafting the Lisbon Treaty

When our government was trying to convince us of the benefits of the Lisbon Treaty, we were told that it contained an “Early Warning Mechanism” that increased the powers of national parliaments to resist EU legislation, and that this meant devolving greater power to member-states and increasing the accountability of the EU institutions.

But now two prominent Europhile MEPs, Labour’s Richard Corbett and the Lib-Dems’ Andrew Duff, have admitted that it did no such thing. In evidence to the Commons European Scrutiny Committee, Andrew Duff told the Committee: “there is a danger that, in assessing the Treaty of Lisbon, national parliaments become obsessed by the early warning mechanism on subsidiarity. It was understood by those of us involved in its drafting and then re-drafting, that the mechanism, although a necessary addition to the system of governance of the Union, was not really intended to be used. It is, in Bagehot’s terms, more a dignified part of the European constitutional settlement than an efficient one.” Richard Corbett told the Committee: “in practice, I do not think that the ‘yellow’ and ‘orange’ card mechanisms will be extensively used.”

The deceit is breath-taking. The contempt in which they hold the voters, and their national parliaments, is astonishing. But we need to learn the lesson: everything the EU does is about transferring power from us to them, and when they pretend otherwise, they’re lying.

Tomorrow Sweden!

Below are some of the videos posted to Youtube from countries across Europe thanking the Irish people for voting no to the Lisbon Treaty:

Netherland:

Great Britain:

Germany:

Poland:

Greece:

Article from Jutarnji list:

Amongst the 1000 asked citizens of Croatia only 30% of them share the opinion that the membership in EU is “a good thing”, while 39% are “neutral” or think that “the membership is neither good or bad”.

Quite to the contrary Macedonians (FYROM) would gladly accept EU - 72% are in favour.

Croatia is one year away from technical closing of membership negotiations. Most pressure has been around ZERP (Law on Ecological and Fishing Belt) and around shipbuilding scandals. Also extremely mild attitude from EU against Serbia and its Hague tourists has been detrimental for the Croatian optimism.

In EU member states as Ireland, Denmark, Poland, Slovenia and Netherlands there are between 70% to 80% of those who see much larger benefits than negative aspects.

In lands like Hungary and Austria around half of the people sees EU as “more damage than benefits”.

In Croatia again only 44% believe that possible membership in EU will bring benefits, while 50% of Turks thinks the same for Turkey and in Macedonia(FYROM) 80% of those asked.

As so many times before we’ll try to squeeze jokes out of contemporary state of mind of the rulers of ze European Union member states.

This time we find few precious stones in the voting over the ratification in Netherlands, the second country that already did have valid referendum on the Constitution and now their political rulers have overruled the people’s political will.

From the EUobserver we read:

Only the left-wing Socialist Party (SP), the Freedom Party of hard-right anti-Islam provocateur Geert Wilders and the Party for the Animals, an animal rights party with one seat in the chamber, voted against.

There you go - FREE SOCIALIST ANIMALS and get rid of the horrid Treaty!

And a message for the Irish voters - don’t get distracted, these are merely some of the tricks in the EU-machinery sleeves. We should have expected ratification or two before The Referendum.