Yesterday French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he would come to Ireland to help campaign for the Lisbon Treaty to be accepted by Irish voters.
‘Mrs Merkel and I will do everything we can to help the Irish make the choice for Lisbon,’ he told a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Paris.
‘If it is of use, I would even be ready to travel to Ireland to support them,’ he said.
Legend in his own croque monsieur, I don’t think this is going to help a lot.
European Commissioner (and Vice President of the commission) Margot Wallstrom camped out here for a while talking to people and cutting through the bull might be a lot more effective. She’s in Ikea today in a live online townhall event hosted by Generation Yes. It all kicks off at 1.30pm and you can view the stream on their website. I hope to be able to watch it if the dentist is kind to me.
By the way Generation Yes are holding a bloggers briefing on Sunday – maybe see you there to find out what the story is on a new campaign group aimed at young people and encouraging them to vote yes in Lisbon 2.
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will the bloggers briefing (with mainstreams reporters) be the last you see of them like micandidate?
Sarkozy is perfectly free to visit our still free country. It will prove one thing about Lisbon – the by the few over the many. They tell us they don’t want to interfere. Then what is this ?
If Lisbon is ratified, we will forever regret it and there will be no going back.
If he brings Carla then that would be a bonus.
iinfact i’ll go further and say so far there no very little web interaction with generationyes, just like micandiate
… but its not OK for Vaclav Klaus for do it?
Pro or Anti-Lisbon, this is interference. It will do more harm than good.