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Ireland's Nice Referenda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2005

Cathryn Costello
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Abstract

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Part One: Referenda required to amend Irish Constitution. Referenda on accession to EEC, the Single European Act, Maastricht and Amsterdam. Development by courts of rules for fairness of referendum campaigns. Referendum Acts and Referendum Commission.

Part Two: First Nice Referendum dominated by euro-anxiety, Irish neutrality and enlargement. Second referendum on same subject not unusual and acceptable according to domestic criteria. Concessions and clarifications. Effect on the Convention on the Future of Europe.

Part Three: implications for the Constitutional Treaty.

Keywords

Nice TreatyIrish ReferendumNice INice IICrothy CaseMcKenna CaseReferendum CommissionSecond ReferendumSeville DeclarationsParliamentary ScrutinyNational Forum on EuropeConstitutional TreatyIrish Constitution
Type
Articles
Information
European Constitutional Law Review , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , October 2005 , pp. 357 - 382
Copyright
© Asser Press 2005