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(EU) EU/EUROPEAN COUNCIL OF SEVILLE: Heads of State and government recognise that EU Treaty is not mutually binding in defence matters - Ireland stresses that participation in CFSP doesn't affect its traditional neutrality

Seville, 21/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - The first results of a Summit that got off to a late start on 21 June, followed the traditional meeting between Heads of State and Government, including the President of the European Parliament (see below) and include the adoption of two declarations, one by Ireland and the other by the European Council, which calls on the Union treaty to impose no mutually binding defence obligation on Member States and which therefore make a "Yes vote" in the Irish...