In a comment to Jim Murray’s entry I wrote that I would respect the vote of the Irish people whatever it was. As I am a great believer in freedom of opinion, I accept their vote.
However, Jim’s entry Coming to the End of the Line brought up a question that has been at the back of my [...]
Most politicians hailed the outcome of the second referendum on the same Lisbon Treaty. Not surprisingly, the loudest amongst them were the Brussels Eurocrats whose proliferation and revenue are further secured by the Treaty (Apostolov 2009b, Apostolov 2009a).
Some politicians were even insolent enough to claim that the second referendum that the Irish folk was literally [...]
(Third edition)
One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson
In a historic second referendum on a treaty changing the way the European Community functions (the Treaty of Lisbon amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community (Conference of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States 2007), alias the Lisbon [...]
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Emerson
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Edmund Burke
The hypocrisy of the European Institutions has been the focus of public debate ever since the resignation of President Jacques Santer’s Commission of [...]
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their [...]
Sir,
I just read your article ‘Support for Lisbon Treaty in Ireland plunges‘ [1] and that reminded me again of G. Orwell’s masterpiece Animal Farm – a truly remarkable novel about a society living up to seven commandments, the seventh of which is “All animals are equal” [2]. Eventually, as the years passed by and the [...]
The Treaty of Lisbon Deceit
In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
In my entry “The EU institutions’ hypocritical fight against climate change” I already raised the issue of the integrity of the Commission of the European Communities (alias the European Commission, EC). This entry puts a start to a [...]
Svetoslav Apostolov is a multidisciplinary scientist, now a freelance consultant. He earned an MSc in Molecular Biology from the Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’, Bulgaria, in 1999 and an MSc in Environmental Sciences and Policy from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and the University of Manchester, UK (Joint Master of Science Programme), in 2004. Along with employment by various private companies in Bulgaria and Germany, his career includes a 7-year employment as a biodiversity conservation expert at the Bulgarian Ministry of Environment and Water, during which time he took active part in the development of international environment protection legislation and policies. Through active involvement in voluntary activities, he contributes to sustainable development and enhancing democracy worldwide. This blog was set up in the framework of his voluntary activities, for which no funding, remuneration or emolument in any form was or will be received. more.
