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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9683

17 June 2008
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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Ireland's choice must not block Community evolution

The blockage of the Lisbon Treaty has changed everything. Let's begin with this week's European Council. The conciliatory and reassuring reaction from the European Commission president was perhaps necessary from a diplomatic point of view but it is not convincing. To assert that Ireland remains committed to strengthening the EU is to ignore reality because the Irish people have made their choice to exclude themselves from it and their choice should be respected. The moment has come to...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION
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