Saturday, October 03, 2009

Irish referendum: the irish vote yes to Lisbon Treaty

Yesterday Ireland went to the polls and said yes to the Treaty of Lisbon.

67.1% of the votes went to the 'yes' and 32.9% of the voters said 'no'. The turnout was 58%.

The only party who support the rejection of the Reform Treaty was de Gerry Adams's Sinn Féin They think that this Treaty (and the European Constitution) should be modified and improved.

The irish ratification opens the door to the polland ratify. The other country which remains without ratify the Treaty is Czech Republic. His President, Václav Klaus, refuses to say if he ratifies the Treaty, but his Prime Minister is convinced that Treaty will be ratified by December (it must be ratified for all the European Union countries to be valid).

My personal opinion: maybe people should heard other opinions, about this subject, like the Gerry Adams or Václav Klaus, for example (people of opposite sign), and then to decide if this Treaty (as the European Constitution) is positive as it is. Czech President, in his speech in Brussels on the 19th of February (during the Czech  presidency of the E.U.), said very interesting things about E.U. integration and Lisbon Treaty.

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