Feb 26, 2015
Ireland’s outgoing EU Commissioner, Charlie McCreevy today (December 18) launched a caustic attack on President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and on the extent of French power and influence in the EU. In a speech to the Association of European Journalists in Dublin, Mr...
Feb 26, 2015
The Bishop of Killaloe, Most Rev Willie Walsh has warned the media not to become “oppressive”, as the Catholic Church had once been. Addressing a meeting of the AEJ in Dublin on Friday, November 13, the Bishop also said the Ryan report did not do “full justice” to...
Feb 26, 2015
Socialist MEP and anti-Lisbon campaigner Joe Higgins has written to the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, asking him to sack Vice-President and Transport Commissioner Antonio Tajani for having taken part in a pro-Treaty campaign tour with the...
Feb 26, 2015
Ireland for Europe Campaign Director, Pat Cox, has said that the Lisbon Treaty is specifically designed to rebalance the existing treaties so that market forces would be matched by extra social protections. Mr Cox told a meeting of the Association of European...
Feb 26, 2015
On Friday, May 28, the AEJ hosted a debate between two outgoing European Parliament candidates, Eoin Ryan of Fianna Fáil and Mary Lou McDonald of Sinn Féin. In her remarks, Ms McDonald said the Lisbon Treaty, while not coming up very much on the doorsteps was...
Feb 26, 2015
The Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore has warned that concessions must not be made by the Government to religious and social conservatives about the wording of guarantees to be negotiated before the Lisbon Treaty is put to a second referendum. Addressing the AEJ in...
