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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9654

1 May 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/wto/doha
Mandelson tries to reassure Dublin over agriculture deal before Lisbon Treaty referendum

Brussels, 30/04/2008 (Agence Europe) - Doha Round agricultural negotiations have become dangerously entangled in the Lisbon Treaty campaign in Ireland and could see a “no” vote returned in the ratification referendum on 12 June. The agricultural compromise reached at the WTO could have a significant impact on voting in a country where the agriculture lobby is powerful. That is the backdrop to the visit of Irish Agriculture Minister Mary Coughlan to Brussels on Tuesday 29 April, to set...

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