I Frankrig lader man stadig ikke til at være kommet sig over Irlands nej til Lissabon-traktaten. Her er det parlamentsmedlem og rådgiver for Nicolas Sarcozy, Alain Lamassoure, der giver irerne en opsang:
[Lamassoure] said it was a mistake for the Government to hold a referendum on Lisbon and described such plebiscites as “tools for dictators” as evidenced by European history. “If you hold 10 or 12 referendums and in every state there is 80 per cent support for an idea there is still only a less than 1 per cent probability that the measure will pass everywhere,” he said.
