The European Union (EU) is about to ignore Irelands 'no' vote on the Lisbon treaty, foreign secretary William Hague has said.
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PoliticsCoUk on 11th Dec 2008 (via politics.co.uk)
Tomorrow voters in Ireland will have their say on the EU's Lisbon Treaty. Ireland is the only European Union member state to have a public vote on the matter, yet a ‘no' from Ireland would bring a definitive end to the years of negotiation. This is what came out of the failure of the constitution.
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JillEvans on 15th Jul 2008 (via jillevans.wordpress.com)
The Sun reports that Foreign Secretary David Miliband has told officials to hold talks on how to bring the Lisbon Treaty into force. Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague is quoted saying “The Irish people have already rejected this EU Treaty and the British have been denied a say.
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OpenEurope on 30th Jan 2009 (via openeurope.org.uk)
An incoming Conservative government in Britain would try to kill off the European Union's Lisbon treaty, unless Ireland reverses its No vote on the controversial text before the next UK election
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FT on 23rd Jul 2008 (via ft.com)
Legal uncertainties surround the European Union preparing for the European elections and a new Commission without knowing if the Treaty of Nice will continue in force or exactly how the Treaty of Lisbon takes over, if ratified. The previous blog post ‘Lisbon Treaty ratification (Ireland)’ presented the main points of the memorandum discussed by the EU Committee of the Finnish Governmen...
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Grahnlaw on 7th Mar 2009 (via grahnlaw.blogspot.com)
In an interview with the Sunday Times, Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague said that the Conservatives may hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, even if the Treaty has been ratified before the party can form a Government. He assured that if the Treaty is unratified before the Conservatives take office then, “of course, we would hold a referendum.
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OpenEurope on 29th Sep 2008 (via openeurope.org.uk)
Ireland will vote for a second time on the European Union's Lisbon treaty on October 2 – 17 months after the pact was overwhelmingly rejected in a referendum
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FT on 8th Jul 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Foreign Secretary William Hague has told the BBC's Matt Frei in Washington ''it is in our national interest to be helpful towards Ireland''.
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BBCPolitics on 17th Nov 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
Ireland will need to run a more intensive campaign in favour of the Lisbon Treaty than last year, when voters rejected the European Union's reform pact, Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said on 19 May.
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EurActiv on 20th May 2009 (via euractiv.com)
William Hague accuses Gordon Brown of "debasing the coinage of politics" by not holding a referendum on the European Union's Lisbon Treaty.
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BBCPolitics on 25th Apr 2009 (via news.bbc.co.uk)