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Alain Lamassoure continues to call for ratification of Lisbon Treaty before European elections

Brussels, 05/12/2008 (Agence Europe) - At a meeting with a small group of journalists on Thursday 4 December, UMP MEP Alain Lamassoure opined that, next year, the economic crisis would be “terrifying” at the time of the European elections and that “every government will lose the elections”. If the institutional crisis “is not resolved before the European elections, I fear that the Lisbon Treaty may not survive,” he said, restating how this treaty would make the European...