Article: LISBON TREATY : HEARING OF TAOISEACH MAY OR MAY NOT CLARIFY SITUATION.

There is no guarantee that the prime minister of Ireland will announce, at the EU summit on 11 and 12 December in Brussels, the holding of a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Some member states are pressing for a road map'.

At their meeting, on 8 December in Brussels, the 27 foreign ministers discussed the agenda of the European Council that will focus on the EU's response to the economic crisis, the adoption of the energy-climate change package and the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty (see Europolitics 3653). On the latter point, explains an EU source, Ireland's Foreign Minister Micheal Martin made only general comments, simply repeating that the ...

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