The morning after: There has been a mixed reaction across European press to Ireland's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty.
Ireland has received widespread support for its rejection of a key EU reform treaty from European newspapers, but others fear it portends a crisis that could lead to the bloc's collapse.
Britain: The Times in London hailed the Irish No vote on the Lisbon Treaty as a victory against a process 'shrouded in jargon and pushed along by the civil servants who invented it'.
It said the No vote was in Ireland's own interest, because approval would have meant a dilution of its influence, and against the 'unsubtle reworking' of the EU constitution rejected by Dutch and French voters in 2005.
The Financial Times offered a similar analysis, calling for the Treaty to be sidelined until a common response can be agreed among all 27 leaders.
'The No vote was based on a ragbag of reasons to which there is no obvious response. The turnout was respectable. So a second Irish referendum would probably be doomed to failure,' the Business Daily said in an editorial.
'Ireland proved that when given a say, most people don't like the way Europe is run,' said The Sun, which has been pushing for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to hold a referendum on the treaty.
'They've had enough of being lied to, cheated and bullied by remote, unaccountable and faceless politicians and bureaucrats.'
In Germany, the conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said the Irish vote was 'regrettable' but not the 'end of the world' for the bloc.
Germany's Die Welt applauded the result. 'Why should they have approved a Treaty that no-one explained the benefits of?'
But for the centre-left Sueddeutsche Zeitung, the result was a sign 'that the European Union has begun to fall apart.
Newspapers in France, which takes over the bloc's rotating presidency next month, said the result means President Nicolas Sarkozy has his work cut out for him.
'France has often been the motor for building Europe. The ball is in its court', wrote the leftist Liberation, suggesting a change of strategy as Europe 'needs to bring people in on its construction'.
The centre-right French daily Le Figaro said the vote showed 'European leaders hardly learned the lessons of the crisis begun three years ago by the referendums in France and the Netherlands.'
In the Netherlands, whose voters helped kill off the Constitution proposed in 2005, the Trouw daily said: 'Ireland must seek a solution herself.'
'The consequences of the Irish 'no' will make it difficult for Nicolas Sarkozy to make his EU presidency a success,' said the mass-circulation De Telegraaf.
Spain's centre-left El Pais said Europe is 'blocked once again by a new crisis,' but the liberal El Mundo suggested the way forward was for the other 26 EU member states to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, forcing Ireland to revise its Constitution which requires it to consult voters, or to hold a new referendum.
Spain's conservative daily ABC called the vote 'the worst setback for the European project in 50 years.'
Italy's La Repubblica said the vote 'splits the government' of Italy, saying the right-wing Northern League, part of the ruling coalition, welcomed it while Foreign Minister Franco Frattini considered it a hard blow.
The French language daily La Libre Belgique in Belgium said that submitting such a complex document to a popular vote was 'an inept exercise.' Le Soir agreed, calling it 'Russia roulette'.
Poland's centre-left daily Gazeta Wyborcza called it 'a very bad sign for the whole European Union' and 'a gift to the Polish enemies of the EU.'
The Polish parliament has ratified the Treaty but it has yet to be signed into law by President Lech Kaczynski.
Slovak dailies Pravda and SME bemoaned the Irish rejection, while Czech papers widely reflected the Eurosceptic stance of President Vaclav Klaus.
