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David Cameron calls for northern European alliance

  • 21-01-2011 11:49pm
    #1
    eh2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12233939

    I saw this . It looks interesting. Ireland hasn't joined up yet . I think we should. Does anyone know if Ireland will be taking part in this?


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  • #2
    onelessprob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28 ✭onelessprob


    Guess the invitation got misplaced...


  • #3
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭✭later12


    Given our potential (potential people, no barrage of anti green rhetoric please) as a wind energy hub, I think we ought to invite ourselves along to this forum.

    I really like DC's politics. Would that an Irish leader might describe him or herself as a salesman for Irish business as opposed to a call girl for visiting businessmen.


  • #4
    Koloman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Koloman


    Bit of an insult that we weren't invited don't you think?


  • #5
    greendom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,382 ✭✭✭✭greendom


    Koloman wrote: »
    Bit of an insult that we weren't invited don't you think?

    Not at all - it looks like the members will be largely on the sceptical wing of the EU project and the majority don't even have the euro as their currency. Ireland is now so in hock to the EU I can't see Ireland getting an invite for quite some time.


  • #6
    baalthor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭baalthor


    It looks like the League of Protestants :D (plus Lithuania!)


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  • #7
    McDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭McDave


    If it's something a group of countries would go for, then there's nothing wrong with the initiative. However, this is not the first time the UK has proposed such an idea. They initially rejected an early invitation to join the EEC, and, to add insult to injury, set up EFTA as a competing entity. However EFTA pretty rapidly dissipated into a tiny rump.

    For those who think the EU has got too large or integrated, a new "EFTA" might have some appeal. But they'd be leaving an entity dominated by a core of states for one dominated by the UK.

    Somehow, I don't think it'll catch on. And certainly not for Ireland.


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