Brussels, 28/05/2008 (Agence Europe) - Elmar Brok, German MEP (EPP-ED) and former chairman of the committee on foreign affairs, has “major concerns” about the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty on 12 June. Controversial issues with no direct link to the new treaty (Irish farmers' discontent with the EU's negotiating position in the Doha round, trade unions' social demands, the debate on Ireland's fiscal sovereignty, etc) have featured in the referendum campaign and have meant that a...