Raymond.ORourke
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Bray, Co. Wicklow
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Food & Consumer Lawyer; worked for over 10 years in Brussels in both the European Parliament & for a major Law Firm; Member of National Forum on Europe [alternate Fine Gael member]; Chairman of the Consumer Consultative Panel in the Financial Regulator; member of Taste Council (Bord Bia); Executive Council member of the Consumers Association of Ireland; member of the Artisan Forum of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland; Fellow in the Department of Food Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland.
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Thu, 12/02/2009 - 14:37
In reference to Daniel's comments & Gay Mitchell's initial comments - we should look at the Democracy debate at EU level being about 'sharing sovereignity" rather than "losing sovereignity" - a small state like Ireland has been at all the major international political, environmental & trade talks in
Mon, 02/02/2009 - 18:25
Hi Ripo
while I think your views on Democracy seem credible, I am suprised that the web link is to a UK eurosceptic website.
in an ideal world yes it might seem good that all EU citizens would have to vote on the Lisbon Treaty, but we must accept different national traditions as to how to adop
