In the week since the rejection by the Irish voters of the Lisbon Treaty, we have been told that the EU is in both “uncharted” and “unchartered” waters, or is it either “uncharted” or “unchartered waters?
So which is it?
Is it that there is no chart to guide us on the choppy constitutional seas, or […]
Archive for June, 2008
Uncharted or Unchartered? Do the politicians know?
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Lisbon: How Better Communication Could Have Averted a Political Crisis
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
When the dust started to settle on the result of the Lisbon Referendum at the weekend, one of the strongest reasons given for voting “no” was “I didn’t understand it, so I voted no” or “they didn’t tell me what it meant so I voted no”.
And there is no doubt that the strategy of the […]
The Importance of Being Credible or JUST SAY YES…please?
Monday, June 9th, 2008
With only a few days to go to the Lisbon referendum, recent opinion polls indicate very clearly that the campaign to get the proposition passed is under very serious threat of failure. Opinion polls this close to voting usually indicate the trend that will emerge on polling day. So at this stage the Lisbon Treaty looks […]