Taoiseach Likely to Rule Out a Second Treaty Referendum European Union: Irish Referendum European Union: Irish Referendum Irish Vote Causes Turmoil
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IRELAND'S prime minister, Taoiseach Brian Cowen, will tell his European counterparts this week that there is little chance he will hold another referendum on the Lisbon Treaty after voters rejected it last week and threw the EU into a panic over how it can legally proceed on the reforms in the treaty without the ratification by all its member states.
Despite assurances from the president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, that the treaty is "still alive" and that other member states in the process of ratifi cation - including the UK - should continue, Sinn Fein, the only political party in Ireland to back a "No" vote, said Cowen should use his first European Council meeting this week to state clearly that the treaty will have to be renegotiated.See the full content of this document
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Taoiseach Likely to Rule Out a Second Treaty Referendum European Union: Irish Referendum European Union: Irish Referendum Irish Vote Causes Turmoil
Any hopes of Ireland being bullied into holding another vote evaporated when the min...
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