Interview Barroso!
By Adriano on Thursday, June 19 2008, 16:53 - Faces - Permalink
Please send
me your question for José Durao Barroso in the aftermath of Irish "No" to Lisbon Treaty and European continuous
crisis to deal with its rules definition.
In 5 years time, the President of the European
Commission will have dealt with strong refusals from national public opinions
to European Constitution and Lisbon Treaty, getting No in three different languages from French, Dutch and Irish.
How do you judge his action? Chairing European Commission, what should he do in a different way?
Write your short question among comments below and speak your mind!
Adriano
Comments
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?
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