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CROATIA IS SET to become the 28th member state of the European Union after a significant majority of voters yesterday voted in favour of joining in a referendum.
Just over two-thirds of the electorate voted yes to joining the EU. However turnout was lower than expected.
The referendum ratified the formal assession treaty Croatia signed in December which signalled its intent to join the EU.
66.2 per cent voted in favour of the referendum while 33 per cent voted against. Invalid votes accounted for 0.60 per cent of the total vote.
The result was a slight increase on opinion polls before the vote, which had suggested that it would pass with around 56 to 60 per cent in favour. The referendum needed at least half plus one of the valid votes to pass.
Opponents had said that joining the EU would lead to a loss of sovereignty for the country. Croatia, a former Yugoslav republic, became an independent country less than two decades ago following a gruelling war.
The vote is a culmination of a decade of plans to join the EU; Croatia applied for EU membership on 21 February 2003.
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We are a small country with services stretched to breaking point thanks to Fine Fail Fine Gael. We must prioritise our people while providing protection to refugees that we can handle.
I’m waiting for the comments from the underclass who help absolutely nobody – ‘“ere wha abou de homeless and de peeples on de trollies in de hospitals”
@Robert Johnson Fagan: The underclass ? Explain please.
@Robert Johnson Fagan: Underclass = poor who need housing and health.
I suggest cutting the millions which are given to ‘charity’ NGOs and advocacy groups. Does anyone know how many and how much the are costing?
@John Lynch: It makes sense to help our poor who need housing and healthcare. However for some, especially the chattering classes who like to be seen doing the “right thing”, telescopic philanthropy is sexier.
@Robert Johnson Fagan:
You being in the Upper Class no doubt? lol
This piece we are commenting on is classic NGO advocacy output.
They are onto Ukraine like vultures.
If there is fighting to be done – it will be the underclass who will be called to do it.
If “Women, children and older people make up the vast majority of this population” then why is it that in every single photo I see of Ukrainian refugees that have arrived here there are a large number of men under the age of forty, all of whom seem to have a completely different ethnic background to the women?
https://carlow-nationalist.ie/2022/04/15/carlow-takes-in-200-ukrainian-refugees
https://carlow-nationalist.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Joe-OBrien-TD-visit-to-Carlow-College-s-4.jpg
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