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INDEPENDENT TD THOMAS Pringle has lost his European Court of Justice challenge to the legality of the permanent European Union bailout fund.
The court said in its decision this morning that there was “nothing capable of affecting the validity” of the European Council decision of March 2011 regarding the European Stability Mechanism in the challenge brought by the Donegal deputy.
Thus it ruled that the ESM is lawful, clearing the way for the multi-billion euro bailout fund to come into force next year.
The court had been considering the case brought by Pringle who argued that the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) breached Irish and European law.
The ESM had already survived a legal challenge in Germany and the decision of the court this morning will come as no surprise to analysts who predicted the court would uphold the law.
The Supreme Court in Ireland earlier this year referred several questions to the ECJ, which is based in Luxembourg, as a matter of “exceptional urgency”.
The ECJ had been asked to rule on three questions:
Such was the gravity of the case all 27 judges of the ECJ participated in oral hearings last month where Pringle’s legal team argued that in the formulation of the ESM there was a breach of law.
However legal arguments for Ireland claimed that the ESM was compatible with EU treaties and the court has found in its favour this morning.
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Here lads. Someone has been injured in a seriously unpleasant attack. Is it really a place to be acting like two kids in a playground? Go do it somewhere else.
Fair enough.
Well said, sorry I lost the run of myself.
i simply made a comment about how the media sensationalises violence today when in reality we are a much safer society than not so long ago. naturally the victim has my sympathy. somehow adrian feels i should be murdered for expressing an observation
That’s terrible. Hope they catch the ones who did it.
Utter nonsense. You did not see 3 fights every night you went out. You simply did not. A complete lie. You are an idiot. You should not be let near a computer. Not just for this comment, but for every other idiotic, badly spelt, uninformed comment you have posted in the past.
walk across oconnell bridge in 1990 at 2am and get back to me. and the good news is i was stabbed twice in my teens, once with a syringe, the bad news for you is i lived
I remember Cork in the 80′s: fights were very common and people were quite baise about it. Gang fights were common: often you’d get 2-3 van loads of scumbags descending on rival estates for a royal rumble. This all died out when XTC hit in the early 90′s. You were more likely to get a hug walking home after that!
Sending all the best to the victim. Here’s hoping the perpetrators are caught quickly.
Well said Om
ok this comment was removed so i’ll try again. for all those red thumbing me let me give you some perspective. when i was fifteen i was stabbed after a school football match in tolka park along with 7 of my classmates. when i was eighteen i was accosted by 3 men at a bus stop on abbey st. they made me empty my money at an atm before stabbing me with a syringe. neither incident got media coverage as they were common occurences back then. i’m glad we’ve progressed so much that these incidents are so rare that they make headlines. maybe you’ll delete this again but i’m baffled why
Wtf is Ireland becoming?
you are joking? the fact that this makes the news shoe how much safer we are now than 20 years ago. when i started going out in dublin i would see at least 3 fights a night between grafton st and my bus on abbey st, rarely see any street violence these days
Waffler I’m sorry for that silly comment earlier. You are however misinterpeting the report. The news item simply stated that a woman had been stabbed. No sensationalism. Simply a news report. You appear at times to post here just for reaction. All under a psuedonym by the way.
we have it good today, when i was growing up this happened day in day out
grew up where exactly waffler?
hope the victim recovers.
Tool
Where do you live?
blanchardstown in the 80s. theyd send in the army now if it was still like that
wtf adrian?
My comment removed!? And I cheered for you in the convention centre last Thursday night…
i cant see why your comment was removed, please explain journal
and wheres my last comment gone? what the hell is going on?
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