Lisbon guarantees being added to Croatian Succession Treaty

Scofflaw

European foreign ministers have begun the process of formally attaching the Irish guarantees on corporate tax, family and social issues and neutrality to the EU treaties, according to the Minister for European Affairs Lucinda Creighton.

The guarantees, which are thought to have helped the previous government win a second Lisbon vote in 2009, are due to be added to European Law in the form of a protocol which will be formally attached when Croatia accedes to the European Union in 2012.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1011/lisbon.html

There seems to have been some doubt in some people's minds over whether these would really be attached, or whether all of them would be attached.

cordially,
Scofflaw

oscarBravo

Scofflaw wrote: »

There seems to have been some doubt in some people's minds over whether these would really be attached, or whether all of them would be attached.

...and in other people's minds as to whether they were necessary, or just adding tautological cruft to treaty documents. Which will then be decried as "too complicated to understand".

petronius

It is essential that our government keep its promises (both Labour and Fine Gael actively supported the lisbon treaty). The Guarantees which got the treaty by the Irish people the second time, regardless of France and Germanys recent mutterings, need to be written into the next treaty(croatias joining) before any further stealth changes imposed under the guise of the crisis

meglome

petronius wrote: »

It is essential that our government keep its promises (both Labour and Fine Gael actively supported the lisbon treaty). The Guarantees which got the treaty by the Irish people the second time, regardless of France and Germanys recent mutterings, need to be written into the next treaty(croatias joining) before any further stealth changes imposed under the guise of the crisis

Further 'stealth changes'? What stealth changes have happened so far?

thebman

They are only adding them into the next treaty so they can break the treaty and really rub it in our faces!!

/mild sarcasm

Manach

Forgive my novice question, but in this intermediate period prior to these guarantess being added to the Croatian Treaty, would these guarantess really be held to be of lesser weight than full Lisbon treaty articles if a clash came before the ECJ?

oscarBravo

Manach wrote: »

Forgive my novice question, but in this intermediate period prior to these guarantess being added to the Croatian Treaty, would these guarantess really be held to be of lesser weight than full Lisbon treaty articles if a clash came before the ECJ?

It doesn't matter. There is no conflict. The "guarantees" are re-statements of what's already in the treaties; they are window dressing used to debunk lies that were spread during a referendum campaign.