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Article: Without the Lisbon treaty reforms, the European Union may stall
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 19, 2008
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Podium Nicolas Sarkozy
THE LISBON process is back on the road. The Irish will be
consulted again. If we stick with the Nice treaty, we stay with a
European Commission with a diminishing number of commissioners. If
we move to the Lisbon model, every member state will have a
commissioner. Political pledges were made to the Irish on
neutrality, taxation and the family. These are recurrent, important
themes for our Irish friends.
We put a compromise on the table allowing us to assure everyone
that they won't have to go through a new Lisbon treaty ratification
procedure because there won't be any change to the Lisbon treaty.
Second, I think that in the future the commission president's
powers ...