Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Lisbon

Found this summary of most of the things the Treaty does particularly helpful. It doesn't talk about the rotating Commissioners (that is, for five out of fifteen years, Ireland would not have a Commissioner in the Commission (the body which proposes European legislation)). To anyone who is concerned about that system somehow being undemocratic, remember that every country will be without a Commissioner for an equal amount of time - such is the nature of rotation. And the Commissioners are nominated, not elected, anyway. And the Commissioner is above state politics, so they're not supposed to be acting in Ireland's interest anyway; they propose legislation for the benefit of Europe. And basically the Commission has no other power than the proposal of legislation, i.e. our democratically elected representatives in the Council and the Parliament will still decide on and implement everything...

So basically, nothing has persuaded me to vote No yet, and there seems to be good reason to vote Yes. :)

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