The Author
Jessie Magee is a freelance journalist based in Dublin. She writes weekly news stories on EU issues for Irish local newspapers under contract for the European Parliament, and also writes occasionally for The Irish Times, The Irish Independent and The Evening Herald. She can sometimes be heard reading the news on Today FM and Newstalk. Between 2004 and 2007, she was a reporter at the radio news agency INN, and before that spent two years reporting for East Coast FM. She taught English at Michel de Montaigne University in Bordeaux, France for two years, has an M.Phil in Anglo-Irish Literature from Trinity and a BA from NUI Galway.
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jeff | June 19, 2008 at 10:52 am
i think that the Irish first minister had taken the good decision to make irish people voted about this treaty.
Even if we agree (or not) with the content of the treaty, it is so important for futur that governments can’t accept it on their own, without the agreement of their citizens (and not just parlement).
More than that, we can forget, for example, that french people said “no” to the previous one and that now they don’t ask people to give their opinion about a “new light” treaty that seems to be quite the same.
In the same time, i think that it wil be very difficult to find a good solution for every UE citizens,in view of the fact that UE is composed now with 27 country which are so different culturally, political historically…
(excuse for my english!!jessie, your hairstyle looks terrific!!)
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jeff | June 19, 2008 at 10:55 am
think that the Irish first minister had taken the good decision to make irish people voted about this treaty.
Even if we agree (or not) with the content of the treaty, it is so important for futur that governments can’t accept it on their own, without the agreement of their citizens (and not just parlement).