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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9814

9 January 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/lisbon treaty
Czech Presidency undertakes to find “acceptable agreement” on legally guaranteed assurances for Ireland by June

Prague, 08/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 8 January, the Czech Presidency of the EU undertook to find, with the Irish government, an “acceptable agreement” on the content and exact form of the “legally binding assurances” that the European Council of December 2008 promised to provide by June 2009 on a series of issues (number of Commissioners, Ireland's neutrality, tax policy, social, ethical and family policies) in exchange for the promise of a second referendum on the Lisbon...

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