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Disreputable sentiments in Europe

FionnMatthew · 2008-06-14 14:32:12

There will be calls in the EU to ensure that a few thousand Irish voters do not hold up half a billion European citizens who want this treaty.-Antonio Missiroli With all respect for the Irish vote, we cannot allow the huge majority of Europe to be duped by a minority of a minority of a minority.-Axel Schafer Now is the…

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#182 17-06-2008 12:32pm
limklad

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marco_polo wrote: »

The benefit is increased control over areas like Fishing, Agriculture and Natural resourses (Of which we have very little), which is a small gain for a services driven economy.

Without Agriculture & Fishing, we cannot feed ourselves, and buying food from abroad and we are at the mercy of their controls and regulation that we do not have any say on. We hardly can feed our self with the Lisbon treaty paper, you can try and tell us your results.

Natural resources: Without natural resources such as water, wind, Natural gas, various metals extracted in out limited ground space. We are doing a bad job at the moment, this can improve the more people complain to our politicians.

Without the Fishing, Agriculture and Natural resources at home as a back bone, services driven economy will fail because of the mercy of foreign politics where we have no say.

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