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European Commission in Ireland - Information on the Treaty of Nice for the general public: Layman's guide, questions and answers, links.

RTÉ News Interactive - Referendum information from Ireland's state broadcaster.

Workers Solidarity Movement - Leftwing Anarchism and the Nice treaty.

Referendum Commission of Ireland - An independent body, set up by statute to ensure fairness of public expenditure in referendums, required by Irish Constitution. Primary role is to explain the subject matter of the referendum as simply and effectively as possible; to promote public awareness of the referendum; and encourage the electorate to vote at the poll.

Nice Treaty Explained - Jens-Peter Bonde, MEP for the Danish JuneMovement gives his in-depth interpretation of treaty effects, and alternatives. With a preface by Romano Prodi.

National Forum on Europe - Established to facilitate a broad discussion of issues relevant to Ireland's membership of an enlarging Union, and to consider the range of topics arising in the context of the debate on the Future of Europe.

Irish Media Review - An independant review of Irish news and current affairs. Section on the Treaty.

Irish Dept. of Foreign Affairs - Referendum Bill, Seville Declarations, Nice Treaty Speeches and Statements. Government White Paper on the Treaty of Nice (PDF only) and shorter Information Guide (Text).

Institute of European Affairs - The Future of Europe - lectures and a series of short pamphlets addressing the issues, which arose during the Nice referendum campaign.

Effect of Small Nations - Thomas Legge of the Irish Institute of European Affairs argues that small nations will change EU institutions. (PDF)

EUobserver - A network of critical and constructive analysis.

Campaign for Irish Neutrality and Democracy - Committed to the principles of peace and friendly co-operation among nations founded on international justice, as set out in article 29 of the Constitution of Ireland.

Action From Ireland (AFrI) - Organisation to promote justice, peace and human rights in Ireland and worldwide.

Ireland For Europe - Believes that Ireland must remain at the heart of the European Union and that the Treaty is necessary to ensure an effective and enlarged Union.

Wikipedia - Article from Open Source online encyclopedia

European Movement of Ireland - Provides summary of the treaty, submissions to National Forum on Europe, and information about previous treaties.

The Treaty of Nice - PDF file of the actual document.

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First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown Nice Treaty We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -- Mme de Staël The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein Nice Treaty Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- Anonymous Nice Treaty Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Nice Treaty In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch Nice Treaty Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Nice Treaty When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. 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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words Nice Treaty Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward Nice Treaty Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne Nice Treaty Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Nice Treaty
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