L'Irlande prévoit un référendum sur le traité budgétaire le 31 mai

Infographie : François Descheemaekere

[Euractiv]

L'Irlande organisera un référendum sur le nouveau traité budgétaire de l'Union européenne le 31 mai prochain. Il devrait s'agir du seul référendum sur ce pacte visant le renforcement de la discipline budgétaire dans l'Union.

"This is a treaty on stability and is about ensuring long-term stability, recovery, growth and jobs," Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore said after announcing the date yesterday (27 March). The bill to amend the constitution will be published towards the end of this week, he added. Ireland joined 24 other European Union states in January in backing the 'fiscal compact' treaty (see background),
which its proponents say is necessary to restore confidence in the eurozone and tame the debt crisis that has sucked in Greece, Ireland and Portugal and now threatens the much bigger Italian and Spanish economies.
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