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| 9,7% |
Total votes 18801 | ||
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Health Food Business
17.12.08
Irish campaigners have further pressured Euro MPs to respect their opposition of the Lisbon Treaty.
A contingent of campaign groups from Ireland, including the Irish Association of Health Stores, took the opportunity during a recent European Council meeting to highlight the damage it believes the Treaty would do to the VMS sector, as well as the farming community.
The campaign groups, along with Irish MEP Kathy Sinnott, argue that the Treaty would mean the country has even less influence over both European legislation and its own health and nutrition.
IAHS President Jill Bell said: “Last year over 60,000 consumers in Ireland signed a petition objecting to over-regulation by the EU, which threatens to remove from public sale the majority of effective natural health supplements on the market and to stifle innovation.
“The EU should respect differences of tradition between Member States. Its attempts to impose sameness overall, specifically in relation to natural healthcare, will win no friends if the Lisbon Treaty referendum is re-run.”
Paul Anthony Taylor, Co-ordinator of the European Referendum Initiative, said Ireland was “by no means alone” in not ratifying the Treaty.
“I find it particularly ironic that despite German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, having appealed to the Irish people to vote yes to the Lisbon Treaty, even her own Government has not yet been able to ratify it,” he said.
“Without doubt, had citizens in all 27 Member States been permitted to exercise their democratic rights by voting in referendums on this treaty, it would have been abandoned long ago.”