Tag Archive for Treaty of Lisbon

Reactions to the Irish referendum

Lord Norton

I have previously written about the material we receive as parliamentarians.  One of the publications that arrives regularly on my desk is The German Times, ‘a monthly newspaper for Europe’.  In the July issue, the executive editor, Theo Sommer, writes about the outcome of the referendum in Ireland on the Lisbon treaty.  He raises issues…

Peculiar hours

Baroness Murphy

Someone commented on our odd hours; I think it was in response to Lord Norton’s blog about our especially early start at noon next Tuesday for the long Lisbon Treaty Debate, which I am looking forward to. We have had lots of ministerial and opposition briefing about it and while I started out as quite…