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Ireland key to Lisbon Treaty, say Czech, Polish leaders (Roundup)
Jul 24, 2008, 19:27 GMT
Prague - The future of the Lisbon Treaty lies in the hands of Ireland, whose voters rejected the pact in a June referendum, the Czech and Polish presidents said Thursday.
The dinner meeting between Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus at the Lany Chateau outside Prague has not changed the opinion of the Czech president, who declared the treaty dead following the Irish no.
'Without a change of the Irish result it makes no sense to further talk about it,' CTK news agency cited Klaus as saying.
Klaus is a longtime critic of the EU accord, designed to streamline decision-making in the expanded 27-nation bloc. He says it's too federalist and too much like a European constitution.
Kaczynski's visit has led to speculation that he will urge his Czech counterpart to support the Lisbon Treaty. Neither the Czech Republic nor Poland have ratified the pact.
The Polish leader, who is also seen as a eurosceptic and treaty critic, repeated Thursday his earlier vow not to block the pact but also pointed out that the ball is in Ireland's court.
'The key lies in the change of Ireland's position. There is no treaty without Ireland, but Poland will not obstruct ratification,' CTK quoted him as saying.
In Poland, the pact was ratified by parliament and awaits Kaczynski's signature.
Kaczynski initially called his signing of the accord 'pointless' but recently assured French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who launched efforts to rescue the treaty, that Poland will not stand in the way.
The Czech Republic is several steps behind. Ratification in parliament is on hold until the country's constitutional court completes a review of whether the Lisbon Treaty is constitutional.
Klaus had previously pledged not to obstruct the treaty but called it dead as soon as Irish voters rejected it in a June 12 referendum. Since then, he has left open whether he would sign the pact if the Czech parliament approves it.
Approval by all EU members is needed for the treaty to take effect. So far, parliaments of 20 countries have endorsed it.
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Whatever happened to the Democratic controlled Congress.
Nancy Pelosi got into the Speaker position and Mr Dean became
the head of the Committee or whatever it is, and together the pair of them have empowered Chris Dodd and Barney Frank to hi-jack 400,000 homes
by this new housing bill and to tie the bill that was supposed to 'help'
people who were losing their homes to a bill that is designed to keep the
two large mortgage insureres and buyers staggering along selling houses to
people who still haven't quite lost everything yet, so that the small little savings that people have got left will be sucked up and they will be left drained as most other people are by now, and yet it was a moment when there could have been a 90 day moratorium imposed on all mortgages as
Hillary Clinton suggested, and during that time better ideas would have come in to view and the Home Owners and Bank Protection Act would have been passed and the new credit system put into place and the meeting of the minds of the worlds great powers, Russia, China, India and the United States could take place and all the ideas that Lynden laRouche has been setting forth on the LPAC web site could go into action and the day would bbe brighter, and the future of mankind would be too.
.. I'd believe the Poles said it, but I'm really surprised the Czechs did too!
I'm from Poland. Many ppl dissagree to sign this pact. It's look like we have more claver thinking people than in others countres and we have still less NWO. Please keep your eyes open! Respect
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Alice WolfJul 24th, 2008 - 20:20:16
As the world economic situation unravels before our very eyes, only
ideas that are extremely practical will be implemented. The euro is
a virtual currency so the Lisbon Treaty is fundamentally unsound.
Unless agricultural output is increased, and the sovreignty of each
European country is preserved and large scale infrastructure projects
are put into practice, thus providing employment for workers, and a
new Bretton Woods financial system put into place, by the coming togehter
of Russia, China, India and the United States to establish a new credit
system, fixed rate credit system, so that the world's future is safe guarded, unless all these steps are taken, in accordance with the suggestions made by Lynden laRouche of the LaRouche Political Action Committee, then the world will plunge backwards into the Dark Ages. We the inhabitants of Planet Earth are fully responsible to make sure that we
put to good use the resources given us by God Almighty, and provide for
mankind, we were instructed to increase and multiply by God himself, and he made provision for exactly that. It is not the moment to pull back and think that he either didn't mean what he said or that he would not provide for the needs that would present themselves along the way. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, and the word is immutable, it does not change so we can confidently go ahead and have our leader establish this new system and plan ahead for new energy sources, build muclear power plants to provide affordable power for the world, build desalination plants and irrigate the earth so that agriculture can take place, supply tractors and fertilizers and seeds to the farmers, build roads and railroads so that food stuff can be transported from the farms to the market place, create jobs so that schools and universities can be built and that people can receive proper education and learn how to sustain themselves and allow sovreignty to prevail instead of empire, because the empiracal society and it's system has broken down irrevocably, and any attempt to prop it up and say that it's still got potential will not stand, why? Because it's a false statement. LOg onto the LPAC website and read the articles and watch the videos that are displayed on the side and be encouraged. We can do it, God is on our side.
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