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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7696

12 April 2000
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/institutional reform
Taoiseach confirms Irish reticence on the subject of enlargement of IGC agenda, ESDP, inclusion of Charter in the Treaty, and enhanced cooperation

Dublin, 11/04/2000 (Agence Europe) - In a speech largely devoted to EU institutional reform delivered end March at the Institute for European Affairs in Dublin, the Irish Prime Minister, Bertie Ahern, made it clear that, if the Intergovernmental Conference tries to deal with an agenda that is "too broad", "we will inevitably miss the deadline of end 2000" and that, as far as Ireland is concerned, the more the scope of the IGC is widened, the more likely it is that a referendum will be...

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