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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9981

22 September 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/lisbon treaty
Commission campaigning in Ireland

Brussels, 21/09/2009 (Agence Europe) - With just two weeks to go until the second Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty (2 October), President of the Commission José Manuel Barroso pointed out to the Irish people in an interview to the Irish Times on 21 September: “The only way to ensure that Ireland will always have a commissioner is to vote Yes to Lisbon. If not, of course, we have to reduce the number of commissioners. This is in the current treaties and we are legally obliged to do...

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