On Friday, George Wittman
warned Brussels to leave Dublin alone. The rest of Europe has
tried to ignore the Irish no vote on the Lisbon treaty, even though
the unanimous consent of all European Union nations is supposed to
be required. If European bureaucrats think they can strong arm
Ireland into going along, says Wittman, they've got another thing
coming.
Why haven't other nations joined the Irish? They haven't had the
chance. As I write in
Doublethink today, Ireland was the only country in the European
Union to even hold a referendum. In 2005 an eerily similar piece of
legislation was put to referendum in ten countries. French and
Dutch voters rejected it. This time, the politicians decided to cut
the people out of the decision making process entirely.
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