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Lisbon ratification crisis escalates

Posted on July 01, 2008

Day 1 of the French presidency of the European Council is off to a bad start. It now seems that both the Czech Republic and Poland will have constitutional struggles over the treaty, with presidents who had been assumed to have mainly titular powers deciding to exercise their right not to sign approved legislation and therefore prevent ratification. Also today, Nicolas Sarkozy postponed his visit to Ireland in a couple of weeks which was supposed to be part of the stocktaking of what went wrong. Whether the postponement (with its unconvincing heavy schedule excuse) is a direc...

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