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Abstract
Ireland was the only EU member state to hold a referendum to ratify the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union (otherwise known as the Fiscal Compact Treaty) on 31 May 2012. It was passed by 60.3% to 39.7%. This briefing paper argues that the referendum debate is of wider interest to EU scholars as both sides articulated diverging policies for how Europe should respond to the financial crisis, in a possible precursor to future debates across the EU.
Notes
See Holmes Citation(2008).
See FitzGibbon Citation(2011).
The name of the treaty was rather confusingly shortened by various EU and member state agencies to the Fiscal Compact Treaty, Stability Treaty and the Six Pack, at many different periods.
A left-wing electoral grouping of the Socialist Party, People Before Profit Alliance, independent MPs and other small left-wing groups.
The report of the European Affairs Sub-Committee on the Referendum on the Intergovernmental Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union is available at: http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/oireachtasbusiness/committees_list/eu-affairs/sub-committee/.
A member of the European People's Party.
A member of the Party of European Socialists.
A member of the European Liberal Democratic and Reform Group.
Author interview with Blair Horan, CEO of the Charter Group 23 June 2012.
Author interview Eamon Devoy, President, Technical Electrical & Engineering Union 19 June 2012.
Author interview with Diarmuid O'Flynn, organiser ‘Ballyhea says No’, 20 June 2012.
62% of Irish voters have a positive view of the EU according to the Flash Eurobarometer survey taken after the referendum.
85% of adults listening to the radio every weekday for an average of four hours a day according to Ipsos MRBI 2012 report, available at http://www.bai.ie/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/JNLR-Results-July-2012.pdf.