07/01/2004 (Agence Europe) - Returning from Dublin where, with Elmar Brok, he had met the Irish Foreign Minister, Brian Cowen, and senior Irish officials, MEP Andrew Duff, who headed the Liberal component at the European Convention, felt that the Irish Presidency is "in an excellent position for mediating" to settle the constitutional issues still pending at the IGC. "An agreement is closer to hand than we thought", was the view taken by the British Liberal Democrat who, with his Christian...