[jrushing]

Looks like the EU is afraid of Referendums as are the Democrats in the USA.
This is typical of the dislike for anything voted on by "the People", when the vote goes against their desired outcome. They cannot understand why voters vote "against them". The voters are stupid syndrome.

[BenLurkin]

The Euros are pretending to not understand(or maybe they just don't) what it means for people to govern themselves. The patronizing elitism shown in this article is very typical of the leftist mind-set which holds that democracy is only genuiine when it advances collectivism.

[Lexington Green]

Elites don't want the people voting.They believe the masses are asses.

[Plutarch]

To save their bacon, the EU needs to call in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals pronto!

[BenLurkin]

The "no" vote reflected those distinct Irish concerns, certainly not a desire by the Irish to prevent new members joining the EU.

Baloney!

[swilhelm73]

The abuses of democracy by the left are growing at ever increasing pace.

They call off an election in CA, because they are worried about disenfranchisment?

And now, while absorbing soverign, democratic states into, let's be honest here, what is likely to not be a democratic state in any real sense, they don't think they should give them a vote??? At least in Africa they practice one man, one vote, one time. Europe has managed to sink below even that low bar...

The EU - championed by Napoleon, Hitler, Mosely, and now the leftist elite.