12th of June, Irish voters rejected Lisbon Treaty which's the successor of constitutional treaty proposed in 2002. The lisbon treaty is designed to ratified by the 27 member states by the end of year, however, it seems EU encountered a new "Treaty Crisis".
Why Ireland hold the referendum?
According to Ireland law, any amendment to an EU treaty requires an amendment to the Irish constitution and, all the constitutional amendments require approval by referendum.
Other EU membet states, so far there're 18 have ratified the Treaty, argued that Lisbon Treaty is like other amending treaties, which only requires parliamentary approval.
Why Irish voters were against the treaty?
The essence of loosing sovereignty. The no camp have argued that the new treaty will surrender the unanimity of voting, and adopt the qualified majority voting.
The amendments will weaken the Ireland's voice in Europe.
Will Irish vote again?
As commentator says that there is a precedent of holding re-run referendum in Ireland, in the case of 2001 Treaty of Nice, which ratified the year after.
However, if the elite from Brussels forces Irland to vote again, it could be portrayed as EU bullying of a small member state, especially when France and Netherland voters rejected constitutional treaty in 2005, and never asked to vote again.
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