Showing posts with label EU. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EU. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 02, 2009

The world's newest sovereign state

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Melancholicus fled his Irish homeland just in time, for as from yesterday, 1 December 2009, the Republic of Ireland no longer exists—at leas...
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Friday, October 02, 2009

Lisbon in a nutshell

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If Ireland should reject the Lisbon Treaty again, the Commissars will punish us by withholding all the cash they weren’t going to give us an...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

What the devil...?

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In September last Melancholicus installed on Infelix Ego a device called NeoCounter . This device is one of many handy tools that measure a...
Thursday, December 11, 2008

Lisbon take two

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Isn’t democracy beautiful? Isn’t it wonderful when the people at large have the chance to determine their own future instead of having a cad...
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Friday, June 13, 2008

The final referendum results

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Melancholicus offers his apologies to those readers from outside the European Union, and to those who couldn’t care less about the Lisbon Tr...

Further results

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Outside Dublin: Galway West rejected the Treaty by a more generous margin than Galway East (53.9% to 46.1%). Of considerable interest is t...

Lisbon Treaty rejected in most constituencies

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As time passes, results are becoming available from more and more constituencies. What is striking is the number of constituencies that have...

Still No

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The time is 14:30. The margin between the two sides has not narrowed, it has widened! Fully half of all constituencies have now declared a f...

The latest

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The time is 14:00. The most recent update courtesy of RTÉ: “With results in from 10 of the 43 constituencies, the Lisbon Treaty is being bea...

No in Dublin South-West

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The time is 13:45. With the biggest margin against the Lisbon Treaty declared in any result so far, Dublin South-West has voted No at 65-35....

Update

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Looking good so far. They’re already celebrating victory over at Credo , but Melancholicus shall wait until the final result is officially a...

It's happening already...

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The latest news, from RTÉ : No vote strong in early Lisbon tallies Friday, 13 June 2008 10:52 Early tallies in the Lisbon Referendum count f...

The morning after

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The referendum has been held, and we are now breathlessly awaiting news of the first returns. It is 10:20am at the time of writing, and coun...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

All you ever wanted to know about Lisbon, but were afraid to ask

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During a lengthy interview on The Right Hook over on Newstalk 106 yesterday evening, Melancholicus heard the most compelling case yet made...
Friday, June 06, 2008

Orwellian society update: bureaucratic secrecy in Brussels

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So much for the much-touted open and accountable EU. These fellows already don’t want the rest of us to know what they’re up to in Brussels,...

Want to read the Lisbon Treaty?

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The text is available in PDF format from the EU bookshop here . Or interested parties may order a hard copy for €42. Melancholicus has at le...
Thursday, June 05, 2008

The Irish bishops on Lisbon

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Not to be outdone, the Irish bishops’ conference has released a pastoral letter offering guidance to the Catholic faithful of this country o...
Monday, April 28, 2008

The Treaty of Lisbon

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As has been mentioned before on this journal, the Irish electorate will vote in a referendum to be held in about six weeks’ time on whether ...
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