A new poll by Irish company Red C, commissioned by Open Europe, has found that 71% of Irish voters are against a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, and that, of those who expressed an opinion, 62% would vote "no" That would mean the "no" lead would increase from 6 points in the recent referendum to a commanding 24 point lead in a second vote.

In an interview with yesterday’s Irish Independent, Irish Europe Minister Dick Roche said a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty is “the appropriate response” for Ireland. He said: "My personal view is that a referendum is the appropriate response to the position we are in.

Open Europe has launched a Twitter account. To keep up to date and follow our activities please click here: In the Irish Times, Roger Cole, Chair of the Peace and Neutrality Alliance in Ireland, argues that the second Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty “is not an Irish battle.

EU leaders are meeting today in Brussels to thrash out the details of the ‘deal’ to be offered to Ireland in return for a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Open Europe’s debate at The Centre in Brussels yesterday on the nature of the ‘guarantees’ being discussed is reported in the Irish Independent and the Irish Times.

A new, pan-European campaign called Europe Says No: No to Lisbon, Yes to democracy has been launched. The campaign is being organised by a wide range of people across Europe, and across the political spectrum, who want to see the Lisbon Treaty rejected. In advance of Ireland's outrageous repeat referendum on 2nd October, Europe Says No aims to show how many people across Europe would themselv...

Judges at the German Constitutional Court are tomorrow due to rule on the compatibility of the Lisbon Treaty with the German Constitution. Ahead of the decision, Open Europe, in collaboration with the Institute for Free Enterprise in Berlin, has published a new poll which shows that 77% of Germans want to be given a say on the Lisbon Treaty in a national referendum.

Last week's Open Europe poll pointing out the growing euroscepticism in Ireland has met with a barrage of hostile comment from the Irish government. But this is not the only sign that political sentiment towards the EU is fundamentally changing in Ireland.The Irish government's option of holding a second referendum is clearly a hopeless avenue to pursue. The other proposal, in the light of that, w...

IRELAND'S volte-face on the Lisbon Treaty is already re-opening the old fault lines on Europe that have proved so destructive to the Conservative party in the past.

The FT has an article on the expected timeframe for reviving the Lisbon Treaty following the Irish no vote. The paper notes that ?The expectation elsewhere in Europe is Ireland will re-stage the referendum - probably in the spring, in time to allow the treaty to come into effect before the European Parliament elections in June.

David Cameron is under intense pressure to come clean over a referendum on Europe after Ireland voted decisively in favour of the Lisbon Treaty paving the way for EU reform.