Angela Merkel to visit Ireland

I think Merkel's visit, read here, is probably good news for all of us fighting to preserve European nation states and their democracies. Earlier reports that France's National Front leader was now not going to visit also seemed positive as I feel outside interference will most likely be counter-productive. Even better news on the Irish referendum side this morning is this report in The Economist that Mr Ahern has lost his gloss in the country, read here. Also this morning comes more news of difficulties in Poland, read here, although experience shows that the Polish governments tend to go along with the EU mainstream at the end of the day. The growing economic crisis, being felt the most in the USA at present, will also play a part I believe as the summer advances. Politicians who have between them seem to have managed to destroy Western capitalism as we have enjoyed it for decades seem unlikely to be able to lead their citizens by the nose into the new style of EU as that envisioned in the Lisbon Treaty, I would guess, an EU where the clearest change is that these same politicians will in future run everything without further need of democratic renewal.