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Interview Barroso! - Adriano

Adriano — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:30:12 +02:00

Tyson, can you tell me your city, please?

Btw, here you have the questions I received via email. Feel free to comment/add new. At the end I'll have to make a selection I'll share with you. Cheers

Question: Do you think the Irish referEndum result will affect Turkey's and Croita's EU membership negotations or not ? What are the expected results
of the referendum for enlargment policy of EU?
Ozçan, Istanbul

why haven't you resigned after the Irish referendum? It would have been a strong political message to the citizens.
Alexandre, Paris

I would ask him if it's possible to go ahead with ratifications of the Treaty and then to have a second referendum in which ask to Irish people "do you want to stay in a European Union with the Lisbon treaty or do you want to go out"? (as Mario Monti proposed) . But is it possible to lose a country like Ireland, that already adopted euro???

Silvia, Milano

1. Does he fear that some countries are getting tired of these steps back and turn their back on the common european project?
2.How is he judging the reaction of the other 26 so far? Does it show a common european interest?
3. Is it a step back after all? Are there positive aspects he can see?

Matthias, Berlin

And for Mr Barroso I think it would be appropriate to remind him how difficult is to read all those documents. I have heard from Irish people that it was extremely difficult to understand what was written, one chapter refer to another and the other to another and so on. And I think they are right. I mean, I have studied law and european law and i remember my professors in Belgium they were constantly repeating to us that in case we are going to work for the EU Institutions we should definitely write simpler texts, and we were just reading Regulations and Directives..I could imagine about a treaty!

Elina, Athens

Interview Barroso! - Tyson Barker

Tyson Barker — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:29:22 +02:00

Do you think that the transatlantic economic council (TEC) has a future? If so, what kinds of concrete achievements would you expect to be seen by next year that would allow it to be considered a success?

I want a EU referendum in Britain - The Law

The Law — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:17:52 +01:00

This whole nonsense that the content of the treaty is the same as the constitution misses the point. It's not a constitutional document and therefore there is no failure to deliver on promises. The human genome is 98% the same as a monkey - does that make it 'pretty much the same thing' - no because the two are qualitatively different. Labour effectively destroyed all the debates in the Commons on the issue and the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats ended up losing political capital on the issue. All the energy to force a referendum could have been directed towards some actual issues not rearranging a political system so that it is fit for purpose for 27 European Member states.