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Associated Press
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jh3jaGhXCnGzxLczEmMHEdR7GBlwD919VV000
Would-be voters support Irish veto of EU treaty
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK - 1 hour ago
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) - Political leaders across Europe were shaking
their heads in frustration this weekend at the Irish voters' veto of the
latest European Union treaty. But many of their citizens weren't.
Ordinary Spaniards, Dutch, French and Britons, who wish they could get
the same chance, might also say "no" to the cold, distant heart of Europe.
"Spaniards feel Spanish, the French feel French, and the Dutch feel
Dutch. We will never all be in the same boat," said Eduardo Herranz, a
41-year-old salesman in Madrid, Spain.
Herranz said Europeans were right to feel alienated from bureaucrats in
the EU base of Brussels, Belgium.
"You don't decide on anything, and you don't get to vote on anything
they are talking about," he said of the average voter. "In day-to-day
life, out on the street, the European Union is something very distant."
