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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9946

23 July 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/treaty of lisbon
Irish Greens and farmers to say "Yes" at referendum on 2 October

Brussels, 22/07/2009 (Agence Europe) - Some good news for the Lisbon Treaty: the Irish Greens, who are members of the current governmental coalition led by Brian Cowen, and the powerful Irish Farmers Association (IFA) have urged their members to vote for the new EU treaty at the referendum to be held on 2 October. Although the Greens' vote on the treaty, at a special congress meeting last weekend, was extremely tight (the required two-thirds majority of the 323 delegates was achieved by the...

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