"European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has said EU member countries who have yet to ratify the Lisbon Treaty should "continue to do so" despite the result of the Irish referendum.
Mr Barroso said the European Union will "respect the outcome of this referendum."
He said he had spoken with Taoiseach Brian Cowen and believed that Ireland remained remained "committed to a strong Europe".
Mr Barroso said the Government "needs to assess what this [No vote] means for the process". He added that the Commission would hear next week how Mr Cowen proposes to advance the process."
In other words keep on with the process in the rest of Europe and despite the referendum Brian Cowen (who has just lost his YES campaign) is expected to find an Ireland solution.
The article continues:
"The European Council meets next week – and that is the place where joint decisions should be taken on issues that concern us all. The “no” vote in Ireland has not solved the problems which the Lisbon Treaty is designed to solve."
No it hasn't, it wasn't meant to. Maybe the NO vote is because people don't see independent countries as a "problem", maybe they didn't see different tax rates in different countries as a "problem".
The article continues:
"France's Secretary of State for European Affairs Jean-Pierre Jouyet said Ireland's possible rejection of The Lisbon Treaty should not stop other member states ratifying it.
"The most important thing is that ratification should continue in other countries (if Ireland has voted "no") and I have good reasons to think that the process of ratification will continue," Mr Jouyet told LCI television.
"We would have to see with the Irish at the end of the ratification process how we could make it work and what legal arrangement we could come to." "
The arrogance of many pro-EU politicians is staggering, whenever someone disagrees, just ignore them and carry on regardless.
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