France had Working Plan to deal with Irish Lisbon Referendum Defeat by July 13th

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Mr Sarkozy takes over the EU’s rotating presidency in July and will be tasked with resurrecting, for a second time, Lisbon Treaty proposals first contained in the European Constitution rejected by French and Dutch voters three years ago.
Diplomats and officials have [...]

Is a Second Referendum in Ireland on the Cards?

Ireland must hold a second referendum on the Lisbon treaty, Nicolas Sarkozy told colleagues on July 16th, 2008 in the clearest sign of a European Union plan to try to save the document ratified by 21 other countries.
A second vote would have to take place in an attempt to reverse Ireland’s rejection of the treaty [...]

US – European friendship Exercise in June marred by Ireland’s No to Lisbon according to Council on Foreign Relations (CFR): Ireland the “skunk at the party”

Charles A. Kupchan, the Council on Foreign Relations’s (CFR) Europe expert, stated that President Bush’s June farewell trip to Europe produced statements of friendship and partnership “hard to imagine a few short years ago.” The Council on Foreign Relations is a nonpartisan foreign policy membership organization founded in 1921 and based at 58 East 68th [...]

Second Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty promoted at Oireachtas level

MEP Gay Mitchell has questioned whether the Irish people should ever again be asked to adjudicate on complex European issues.
The Fine Gael MEP asked whether a referendum was “the right vehicle” for issues such as the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.
“People will say that he would say that, because he was on the losing side,” [...]

France moves to intregrate EU Defence Capabilities

French Defence Minister Hervé Morin has announced a strategy to increase the EU’s military capabilities during his country’s presidency of the union.
He also stated that France had no hidden agenda to undermine Nato and pledged that it would rejoin the organisation’s military command structure.
“Any hesitation expressed by some states in the past that there was [...]

French President Sarkozy to postpone official visit to Ireland

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that he is to postpone a planned visit to Ireland to discuss the EU Lisbon Treaty.
Mr Sarkozy, who has so far refused to be drawn on whether there should be a second Irish vote on the Lisbon Treaty, was scheduled to visit on 11th July. He will now visit [...]