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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9645

18 April 2008
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/lisbon treaty
Barroso reassures Irish on taxation, neutrality and rural development - “No Plan B”

Brussels, 17/04/2008 (Agence Europe) - The consequences of a “no” at the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, on 12 June this year, would be disastrous for Ireland and for the European Union and “this time I can tell you there is no plan B”, José Manuel Barroso was reported as saying in The Irish Times of 17 April, on the occasion of his visit to Ireland on Thursday and Friday. The president of the European Commission, however, refuses to dwell on such a “negative scenario”...

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