French minister says the Irish will vote again

[toxic avenger]

Can anyone on the forum explain this Treaty to a tick, wee bogger like I be?
It has to be simple and short.

Can be moved to another thread that is suitable.

It's one of a series of steps towards a political entity or 'Super-state', an incremental process through which the idealist 'supranational' process might be realised. It's about a longer-term project than the specific provisions of this stage. It's insane.

[Taibh]

This treaty looks like one of those complicated credit card agreements that you can never read but that lock you into a contract that has surprising consequences. The whole notion fo caveat emptor applies.

The idea of a streamlined Europe is a good one to me but I believe that there are critical flaws in the approach taken in this effort. If the European project is inevitably drifting towards a defacto federal state then the governing document should be intelligible to the general public.

[florin]

Because the Irish press today concentrated on the threats aspects of the interview of foreign affairs minister Bernard Kouchner, another part, and perhaps more important part of his declarations, was missed by the Irish voters.

I certify that he said that: "and then try to convince the Irish, who already voted again for the Nice treaty for that matter, to put the treaty back on the work table".

I remind you that this minister will play a leading role in the next few months, since France will have the EU presidency.

Full interview, audio, video and transcript here.

Because - as every Frenchman knows - when zey say "no", zey really mean "yes"!

[He3]

Because the Irish press today concentrated on the threats aspects of the interview of foreign affairs minister Bernard Kouchner, another part, and perhaps more important part of his declarations, was missed by the Irish voters.

I certify that he said that: "and then try to convince the Irish, who already voted again for the Nice treaty for that matter, to put the treaty back on the work table".

I remind you that this minister will play a leading role in the next few months, since France will have the EU presidency.

Full interview, audio, video and transcript here.

One No was never going to be enough for some people pushing Lisbon.

Thanks to arnaud, we know that three days before our vote last year, the French Foreign Minister said if we voted No he would want us to vote again.


Si un pays manquait à l'appel, les 26 pourraient-ils appliquer le Traité ? Ou le Traité serait-il définitivement loin ?

Théoriquement non. Théoriquement non. Je pense qu'il faudrait poursuivre en ce qui concerne la France puisque nous serons Président à partir du 1er juillet, il faudrait continuer, s'acharner, aller très vite, continuer sur les priorités que nous avons définies et puis tenter de convaincre les Irlandais qui ont déjà revoté une fois à propos du Traité de Nice justement, de remettre ce Traité sur le métier. Difficile situation qu'on commence à envisager un peu partout avec comme dirais-je, de l'espoir certainement c'est nécessaire, mais un peu d'incompréhension qui va se transformer en une gigantesque incompréhension. Ce n'est pas en étant seul qu'on arrivera à faire face ; et au contraire, vraiment les Irlandais se pénaliseraient.

RTL.fr : 1er site radio de France - 1er site à écouter - Info, Sport, Musique et Loisirs - RTL.fr - Bernard Kouchner : "Tout le monde se tourne vers l'Europe au moment où on la refuse à l'intérieur" - Bernard Kouchner : "Tout le monde se tourne