Another protocol for Ireland or opening up the Lisbon Treaty for ...

Written by Daniela Schwarzer
Friday, 04 July 2008

The European Council on June 19/20, 2008 did not indicate a way out of the EU crisis which resurfaced with the Irish „No“ to the Lisbon Treaty on June 12, 2008. Nevertheless, one or two likely options are being sketched on the horizon...

The process of EU reform, which had started with the European Convention, led to the Constitutional Treaty adopted by the EU governments, which failed in referenda in France and the Netherlands but got renegotiated and slimmed down to be re-baptized Lisbon Treaty, has lost dynamic and credibility. So it would be wrong to expect overwhelming external dynamics to get Ireland moving on the Lisbon Treaty.

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