How can you trust a country to have a serious vote when its citizens have recently voted to have a puppet turkey represent it in the Eurovision song contest?! I joke of course…
But of course, the European Parliament was not joking when it voted to ignore the result now, was it?
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1 Bob B // Feb 28, 2008 at 1:26 pm
The vote in Ireland on deciding the national entry for the European Song tournament suggests to me an immensely wise and sophisticated electorate. It’s for that same reason I expect the prospective referendum there (lucky ol’ Ireland) on whether to endorse the new EU Constitution to give wholehearted approval. I mean, consider the rewards to Ireland from EU membership:
“The European Union budget increased only narrowly in 2005, by 0.01% of EU Gross National Income (GNI), while benefits were shared by all 25 Member States. The biggest Member States got nearly 2/3 of total allocated expenditure, similarly to 2004.
“Ireland received net income from the European Union of € 1.4 billion. Receipts from the Common Agricultural Policy amounted to € 1.8 billion. Based on a resident Irish population of 4 million, per capita net income for Ireland was € 350 - the highest in the pre-enlargement EU15.”
http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_10007375.shtml
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