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Mon 10 Oct 2009The Yes vote to Europe
THE RESOUNDING two to one majority for the Lisbon Treaty is, as Taoiseach Brian Cowen has said, good for Ireland and good for the European Union. It has reaffirmed that Irish people are among the most enthusiastic supporters of the European project and understand that our fate lies with, and at the heart of it, not least in the middle of the mother of all economic crises.
While one may have to go back to the Maastricht vote in 1992 to find a higher vote (69 per cent), for decades Irish voters surveyed by Eurobarometer have remained consistently among the EU’s three most supportive electorates.
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