The Fiscal Treaty Thread

Well lads and lassies,

We are shortly going to be asked to vote again and its an important one. Before we debate the pro and cons of this Treaty, I thought I would stick up links to the Treaty itself and other information which might be useful to help epople consider this issue..

The Treaty

http://www.european-council.europa.eu/media/579087/treaty.pdf

Link to European Institute of European Affairs website giving an overview of the Euro crisis

http://www.iiea.com/blogosphere/the-euro-crisis-infographic

Link to same Institute's paper on Fiscal Treaty..

The Euro Crisis: The Fiscal Treaty – An Initial Analysis

EU Member States will sign a new treaty on the margins of the European Council meeting in early 2012. The treaty has been described by its proponents as the first foundation stone of a fiscal union, while its opponents have lambasted the agreement as a meaningless distraction from resolving the euro area’s debt crisis. This paper analyses the content in the fourth leaked draft of the ‘Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union’ – the European Union’s new fiscal treaty – and examines its impact on the current debt crisis.

Peadar o Broin is an associate research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies and was previously a senior researcher at the IIEA. A specialist in European law, he has lectured at UCD Law School and authored many reports on the European Union, its treaties and its institutions. During his time at the IIEA, he prepared the first consolidated English version of the EU treaties amended by the Lisbon Treaty and was a regular media commentator during Ireland's Lisbon Treaty referendum campaigns

http://www.iiea.com/publications/the-euro-crisis-the-fiscal-treaty--an-initial-analysis

 

Thanks mate,

Some interesting reading there, when time permits....

No doubt there'll be lots of posts about this, once the referendum date is announced etc.

Thanks

 

So what, we vote, we say NO, Europe doesn't like that so we vote again.

Democracy wins, yayy!

 

Here we go again and if at first we don't succeed try again!!!!

 

We vote no on this one Europe doesn't care, they continue without us.
They don't need every country to agree for this to proceed.

 

I think you mean they don't need every country to agree??

 

Real information, mis-information, scaremongering etc can't wait!

Let the games begin!