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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9972
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/lisbon treaty

German ratification on track

Brussels, 08/09/2009 (Agence Europe) - The Bundestag, the lower house of Germany parliament gave its approval on Tuesday 8 September (446 voters for, 46 against, with 2 abstentions) for the legislative amendments called for by the German constitutional court before Germany is able to complete the ratification process for the Lisbon treaty. In practical terms, parliamentarians in Berlin adopted a nominal appeal for an “accompaniment law” (Begleitgesetz), which aims to give the German...

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