The Lisbon Treaty vote was a "victory of freedom and reason over artificial elitist projects and European bureaucracy . . . The Lisbon treaty project ended today with the decision of the Irish voters and its ratification cannot be continued," - Czech President Vaclav Klaus
The Tories said that after the rejection of the treaty’s forerunner — the now abandoned EU constitution — by French and Dutch voters in 2005, EU leaders should finally accept that their blueprint for reform was dead.
“I think our government should have the courage to say to other European leaders, now we have got to recognise reality . . . The people of France, the people of Holland voted against a very similar document, the EU constitution. Now the people of Ireland have voted against this . . . It is time to turn away from this whole centralising project and concentrate on things that really matter," - British Conservative Party shadow foreigh secretary, William Hague
From: http://www.ireland.com/
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