I don't like the tone of the article.
This wouldn't be the end to the EU, they would just have to go back to the drawing board... apperantly their are a lot of Europeans (not just 800k+ Irish) of the 490 million that don't want to take away national vetoes, have a strong executive or a strong foreign ministry.
The BBC seems like it is trying to make it sound like 800k Irish are holding back the great, wonderful EU. 800k had the opportunity, and took, to stand up to non-representitive government. There are hundreds of millions of Europeans who are happy that the Irish did this. It's bad enough when 51% of the people tell the other 49% what to do, it would be worse to have 51% of represented people to tell 100% of unrepresented people what to do.
I don't understand why the so many people are so willing to give up there freedom.
I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.
