Irish failure and "normative trap"
“Crisis”, “chaos”, “trouble”, “chain reaction”, “disaster”, “defeat”, “paralysis” - the European press is full of these and other alarmist expressions after the failure of the referendum in Ireland on the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. The general picture, however, turned out to be painted not only with “funeral” notes regarding the further course of European integration, but also by some oddities that accompanied the entire ratification process.