Those ungrateful Irish; Charlemagne.(Ireland's position toward European Union cools despite success)(Brief Article)(Column)
Economist (US), The, October, 2002
However their referendum on the Nice treaty goes, Ireland's voters plainly have doubts about the EU. Why?
IT WAS nearing midnight when Pat Cox snapped. Mr Cox, the president of the European Parliament, has been criss-crossing Ireland for the past month trying to persuade his fellow countrymen to vote in favour of the European Union's Nice treaty in a referendum on October 19th. Five days before the crucial vote, he started the day with a 7.30 breakfast with businessmen in Cork, in the south, then speeches, interviews and finally an evening debate nearly halfway up the country in Galway.
For all Mr Cox's eloquence, many of the voters packed into a back room of the Menlo Park Hotel seemed unconvinced by his argument that it was both a moral duty and an...
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