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2005-07-11 Europe

Luxembourg Leader Hopes EU Charter Revived

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Posted by Fred 2005-07-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If Luxembourg had voted "NO" it would have been the final shot in the head.

While the YES was simply a shot in the a... so we can prolong its sufferings. It takes a moron like Juncker to think that the vote of half a dozen people (225,000 registered voters) in a country who lives from money laundering and... from having euro-institutions on its soil (ie its vote is bought and paid for) can undo the negative votes of France and Netherlands. And we also notice that the press seems to be very discrete about how many people went to vote. Here oin France it was 70% and still higher in the Netherlnds.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-07-11 08:59|| 2005-07-11 08:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Excellent points, as always, JFM. Juncker is distraught and worried: not only will he and his ilk will lose the loot they planned on skimming, but imagine the unemployment! Lol!

Posted by .com 2005-07-11 09:24|| 2005-07-11 09:24|| Front Page Top

#3 And we also notice that the press seems to be very discrete about how many people went to vote.

You could have found the turnout if you wanted to, JFM -- it was 87.7% in Luxembourg.

http://www.verfassung-fir-europa.lu/fr/referendum/resultat/unique.html

Posted by Ebbase Slirt3346 2005-07-11 10:54|| 2005-07-11 10:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Luxembourg's vote means a majority of the union's nations â 13 out of 25 â have approved the constitution.

IIRC only three of these country's citizens actually voted for it; the other 10 were approved by their legislatures. I'm sure it was just an oversight by the reporter...

Posted by Raj 2005-07-11 11:06|| 2005-07-11 11:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Mighty Luxembourg has spoken! And who shall dare gainsay her?

Posted by docob 2005-07-11 11:37|| 2005-07-11 11:37|| Front Page Top

#6 OK. I just looked at the (rabidly pro-European) French MSM.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-07-11 12:18|| 2005-07-11 12:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Hope away, dorkface.

It's dead - unless the EUrocrats pull some illegal shenanigans.

Which they will certainly try.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-07-11 14:08|| 2005-07-11 14:08|| Front Page Top

#8 reminds me of the scene in The Last Emperor where Pu Yi hears from one of his Japanese handlers that Manchuko has been recognized by El Salvador, and it's just a matter of time before the rest of the world follows suit.

Posted by Mike 2005-07-11 16:44|| 2005-07-11 16:44|| Front Page Top

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