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"Thank you, Commissioner. So, why is ‘Debate Europe’ not working? In Ireland the exhaustive time spent counteracting a litany of issues – often important in their own right but totally irrelevant to the content of the Lisbon Treaty – which create fear and confusion, deliberately or otherwise, is seriously detracting from the positive message of Lisbon. And knowledge matters in EU referendums. Voters’ confidence in their knowledge of the issues involved in the Lisbon Treaty is crucial to the successful outcome of this referendum, for them to vote ‘yes’, having decided to vote at all in the first place. ‘Levels of knowledge of the Treaty suggest public opinion [in Ireland] is more like Nice 1 than Nice 2’ – the words of Professor Richard Sinnott, not mine. Notwithstanding ‘Debate Europe’, Commissioner, as the Commission and Member States to date have failed abysmally to communicate Europe and how it works and an understanding of its present Treaties to over 90% of our citizens, how do you advise us now to communicate amendments to those same Treaties, amendments to Europe, to ensure the necessary degree of knowledge for the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty? We have failed to communicate Europe; how will we communicate amendments to a Europe that nobody understands?"@en1
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