06/05/2008 (Agence Europe) - Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, who resigned Tuesday evening, said the victory of the “yes” vote at the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, on 12 June, was “imperative” for the country's social and economic progress. “I am convinced that the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty is imperative to the future economic and social progress of the Irish people”, he writes in The Irish Times on 6 May. “I also want to record my belief that the European...