Schüssels Umtriebe in Europa

(25.9.2008)

Unten stehendes mail hat uns aus Irland erreicht. Schüssel wird in der Meldung als Kanzler bezeichnet (woher wohl der Irrtum rührt?).   Dass er auch als „nur“ Clubobmann und hinter den Kulissen kräftig herumagiert, wissen alle. Nun hat er wieder einmal Irland im Visier und stellt negative Konsequenzen für das Land in den Raum, wenn es weiterhin „die Fähigkeit der gesamten Union zu agieren blockiert“.

The National Platform EU Research and Information Centre

24 Crawford Avenue

Dublin 9

Ireland

Wednesday 24 September 2008

Dear Austrian Friends,

I saw the item below in the Open Europe bulletin, London, today.
Presumably you will do whatever you can in Austria to object to this statement by the Austrian president.

Please do your best to bring it to the attention of others in your country who may be concerned about this matter  also and who might publicly object to it.

Yours sincerely

Anthony Coughlan

SecretaryAustria joins calls to pressure Ireland to ratify Lisbon Treaty

In an op-ed in the run-up to the elections in his country, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel dismisses the more critical stance towards the EU of the Austrian social democrats. He also urges Ireland to put forward very concrete proposals on how to solve what he calls the present EU institutional reform crisis, saying „soon 26 member states will have ratified the Lisbon Treaty, and thus it would not be wise for one country to block the ability to act of the whole Union.“