The real scale of Irish reservations. The analysis of the Irish "no" to the Nice Treaty undertaken by Ms. Brigid Laffan, of Dublin University, for the association "Notre Europe", chaired by Jacques Delors (see our bulletin of 13 July, p.5) confirms two convictions I have already expressed in this section. The first is that Irish reservations refer to some essential elements for tomorrow's Europe, more so than to the EU's enlargement. The second is that the Irish Government had direct...