Faced with an economy in free fall, Irish voters have voted to amend their constitution to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, which will mean that the European Union (EU), based in Brussels, has achieved the endorsement of almost every government in the EU to create a more powerful EU bureaucracy based in Brussels, with expanded legal and political power.In June 2008, Irish voters rejected almost exactly the same proposal, largely because of fears that the new EU bureaucracy would have power to interfere…
