EUROPEUS

Since the days of Shakespeare, drama is at home in English speaking countries. So it was almost pathetic that the results of the Irish referendum about the Lisbon Treaty were announced on Friday 13th. And Friday 13th might turn out to Elm Street for Euro technocrats. Ireland has rejected the Lisbon Treaty and since the Treaty must be signed by all 27 member states of the EU, it can be considered as clinically dead. Bad news, since the Lisbon Treaty was already “Plan B” for the Treaty for a European Constitution, which had been rejected by the French and the Dutch.