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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9738

12 September 2008
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
Despite some clarification in Ireland, difficulties and uncertainties persist

Developments in the situation in Ireland with regard to the Lisbon Treaty are at the same time both encouraging and worrying. Encouraging, in the sense that the great majority of the public has reaffirmed its support for European construction and its will to participate in it, and that the government is also currently outlining its strategy in view of the new referendum; worrying, in the sense that this same government considers that a certain time frame is necessary for putting its...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS