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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9710

25 July 2008
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
Plea for Irish people to be able to make voice heard in knowledge of what Lisbon treaty and its implications really mean

Despite rejection of the Lisbon treaty, the Irish people are still quite clearly in favour of European construction; all the polls bear this out. It is, therefore, a strange situation and rather paradoxical that a keen pro-European country risks being left on the sidelines of EU progress and left out of helping to improve how the EU functions. This situation strengthens the opinion that holding a referendum is not the appropriate formula for a country to give its verdict on such a complex...

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