A roundup of links on the forthcoming referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland:Worries about taxationIrish Referendum commission websiteEU Ref has a blogpost about it

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.

The special sub-committee of the Irish Parliament, set up to evaluate the options for Ireland following its rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, reported yesterday. Interestingly, its recommendations to the Irish government focus on the option of re-running the Lisbon referendum, but on the assumption that the Irish government "would respond to concerns expressed during the referendum campaign". Such

With domestic attention focused on the extraordinary David Davis affair we should not overlook what is happening on the other side of the Irish Sea. With counting still being completed it looks very much as though Irish voters have torpedoed the EU's Lisbon Treaty by voting "No" in their country's referendum. Irish justice minister Dermot Ahern sounded resigned to the inevitable when he said: "Bas...

The EU still holds out the hope of winning a second Irish referendum. At least they are pretending that they do, as they must realise that the national mood is swinging against the likelihood of that outcome. If the Irish vote a second time, and get the wrong answer, the EU will no doubt demand a Parliamentary-only ratification from Ireland, and simply ignore the referendum results.How that will p...

Europe Ireland to hold second referendum on Lisbon Treaty; Gordon Brown questions legal status of “concessions” as Irish government admits it will take months to agree what form they will take There is wide coverage of yesterday’s EU summit in Brussels, where Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen gave a commitment to hold a new referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in return for a number of...

There might just have been an argument to support the Lisbon Treaty (LT) in the 2008 Irish referendum, although I do not see it myself, but it is impossible to make a valid case to vote in favor of the LT in the forthcoming October 2009 referendum, as this second referendum in itself is a massive betrayal of the democratic will of the Irish people. At the 2008 referendum, which took place a year a...

The Independent reports that Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen has announced that the second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty will take place on 2 October. The Irish Times notes that EU leaders have welcomed the decision with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt saying he “hoped to see a better campaign and result in Ireland”.

The ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, and the deposit of the ratification documents in Rome (this last an essential part of the process of putting the Lisbon Treaty into operation) continues to be misrepresented by the media and continues to be prevented by the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany and Ireland. Ireland voted the Treaty down by referendum and is the most obvious stumbling block. The Cze...

The only viable option for the Irish government to resolve the Lisbon Treaty crisis is "to hold a second referendum on the substantive question of whether or not Ireland remains a member state of the EU," writes John O'Brennan, a lecturer on European politics and society at the National University of Ireland, in an October paper for the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).