Brussels, 28/02/2012 (Agence Europe) - Ireland is to hold a referendum on the new European budget pact, announced Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny on Tuesday 28 February to the Irish parliament, without giving any idea of when the referendum would take place.
The attorney general, who is the government's legal advisor on constitutional matters, had decided that a referendum would be held, announced Kenny. The attorney general says that because the budget pact is not part of the European...