04/12/2008 (Agence Europe) - Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Cowen is apparently calling for “legally binding guarantees” on various Irish concerns (keeping the Irish commissioner, neutrality, taxation, abortion) in exchange for a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in autumn 2009. To date, it has always been a matter of just political declarations intended to reassure the Irish. These legally binding guarantees should take the form of “protocols” to the treaty, according to The...