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,” [...]
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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 [...]
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