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Already the Brussels Commission and Mr Göran Persson, Prime Minister
of Sweden, are openly
hinting at an attempt to blandish and bully the Irish people to
reverse their decision of last
Thursday to reject the Treaty of Nice by a referendum majority of 54%
to 46%.

With colossal arrogance and contempt for the democratic process, EU
law and the Vienna
Convention on the Law of Treaties, the Swedish Prime Minister and EU
Commission President
Romano Prodi say that no changes can be made in the Treaty of Nice to
accommodate Irish
reservations and they openly talk of "doing a Denmark" on it.

In other word, they plan to issue some political Declarations and
statements on different aspects
of the Treaty, hope that these can be "spin-doctored" to the Irish as
representing significant
change, and then hold a second Irish referendum on the same treaty,
without changing a jot or
tittle of its contents.

>...
>
Irish democrats appeal to Swedish democrats in particular to press the
following on Prime
Minister Persson's Government as it presides over the EU summit in
Gothenburg next weekend:-

1) that Sweden and the other EU Member States must now publicly
recognise that the Nice Treaty
ratification process is at at an end, and that it would be an
insult to the Irish people, as well as an
infringement of EU law and of public international law governing
the ratification of treaties, to
purport to continue with the Nice ratification process by
presenting the Treaty for ratification before
any Member State national parliament when the Irish people have
rejected it;

>....
>
4) that the EU enlargement negotiations with the 12 Applicant States
should continue
uninterrupted, as the Treaty of Nice is NOT LEGALLY NECESSARY for
EU enlargement, but is only REGARDED
AS POLITICALLY NECESSARY in order to ensure the predominance of
Germany and France and
an inner club of Member States, when and if a a major enlargement
of the EU by up to 12 States
should come about.

>
>....

In showing solidarity with Ireland by pressing your Government to
recognise that the Nice Treaty
ratification process should now end, it is important to realise that>the Irish No-to-Nice was not>against EU enlargement as such. All the
elements involved in
Ireland's No-to-Nice movement said
that that they were not against EU enlargement if the Accession
States got a fair deal that was
acceptable to their peoples in fair and free referendums. They



	nyhetsbrev13bu28 Printed: tisdag 23 juli 200221.00.04		Page 3 of 17 Printed For: Louise
	Already the Brussels Commission and Mr Göran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden, are openly hinting at an attempt to blandish and bully the Irish people to reverse their decision of last Thursday to reject the Treaty of Nice by a referendum majority of 54% to 46%. With colossal arrogance and contempt for the democratic process, EU law and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, the Swedish Prime Minister and EU Commission President Romano Prodi say that no changes can be made in the Treaty of Nice to accommodate Irish reservations and they openly talk of "doing a Denmark" on it. In other word, they plan to issue some political Declarations and statements on different aspects of the Treaty, hope that these can be "spin-doctored" to the Irish as representing significant change, and then hold a second Irish referendum on the same treaty, without changing a jot or tittle of its contents. >... > Irish democrats appeal to Swedish democrats in particular to press the following on Prime Minister Persson's Government as it presides over the EU summit in Gothenburg next weekend:- 1) that Sweden and the other EU Member States must now publicly recognise that the Nice Treaty ratification process is at at an end, and that it would be an insult to the Irish people, as well as an infringement of EU law and of public international law governing the ratification of treaties, to purport to continue with the Nice ratification process by presenting the Treaty for ratification before any Member State national parliament when the Irish people have rejected it; >.... > 4) that the EU enlargement negotiations with the 12 Applicant States should continue uninterrupted, as the Treaty of Nice is NOT LEGALLY NECESSARY for EU enlargement, but is only REGARDED AS POLITICALLY NECESSARY in order to ensure the predominance of Germany and France and an inner club of Member States, when and if a a major enlargement of the EU by up to 12 States should come about. > >.... In showing solidarity with Ireland by pressing your Government to recognise that the Nice Treaty ratification process should now end, it is important to realise that>the Irish No-to-Nice was not>against EU enlargement as such. All the elements involved in Ireland's No-to-Nice movement said that that they were not against EU enlargement if the Accession States got a fair deal that was acceptable to their peoples in fair and free referendums. They