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Date Posted: 08:45:20 07/09/08 Wed GMT
Author: Lynn
Subject: Letter to Editor: Irish referendum a win for nationalism (Christian Sci. Monitor)

Letters to the Editor

Irish referendum a win for nationalism

Regarding your June 17 editorial, "Europe's unfinished house": I say, hoorah for the Irish. Their 800,000 votes against the Lisbon Treaty were hardly a "disappointing moment" in the history of the European Union and its quest for a constitution. Ireland did what every free society should do – permit its citizens to vote.
Meanwhile, the rest of the EU members don't dare put the treaty to a referendum. The last time they did, in 2005, French and Dutch voters shot down the earlier constitution. This time, those nations are circumventing their citizens by ordering their parliaments to do the bidding of Brussels bureaucrats and special interests and approve the treaty.
Like the French and Dutch, the Irish rightly seem wary of a grasping, centralized EU government – with an appointed president and other unelected elite – that can map out trade, labor, immigration, and foreign policy for the entire continent.
So while the powers-that-be blast the tiny Emerald Isle for messing up dreams of ever greater control from Brussels, Ireland should stand firm behind its citizens' wishes.
Katherine Dillin
Arlington, Va.

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