The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, will use a Paris summit next weekend to increase pressure on Ireland’s prime minister to impose some sort of fascist dicipline on his Irish peasants after their rejection of the Lisbon treaty.
Sarkozy is to travel to Dublin on July 21 to ram home the point in talks with Biffo.
The French strategy is aimed at isolating Ireland for their foolish belief in democracy.
Speaking in Paris last week, Sarkozy made it clear there would be no reworking of the document simply to get the Irish on board.
“There will be no treaty part III,” he said, indicating that the stupid Irish would be expected to hold another referendum and vote “Yes” this time or if not then the Irish Government must pass it through a parliamentary vote.
“If the perspective of a second vote in Ireland has been raised it is because we have used that con before and it worked,” Sarkozy told journalists, referring to Ireland’s second referendum on the Nice treaty in 2002. “We need some kind of vote to get out of the situation – in parliament or in a referendum, I don’t know. But when democratic society says ‘no’, you need not listen.”
Vaclav Klaus, the Czech president, has threatened to block the treaty pending the court’s verdict. He recently hit out at French efforts to put the treaty back on track and ignore Irish public opinion.
“I expect a lot of pressure to create a European Union à la France,” he said. “Our view is different and we must make an effort to ensure the EU does not develop in a fascist way with no respect for the law.”

Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands are expected to push it through – regardless of what their people think - with Poland, the Czech Republic and Ireland saying “No”.