French President Nicolas Sarkozy has arrived in Dublin to discuss the way forward after Ireland's shock rejection of a key European Union treaty.
Sarkozy, who currently holds the EU's rotating six-month presidency, will be holding talks with Prime Minister Brian Cowen as well as pro- and anti-Lisbon Treaty lobbyists. Sarkozy insisted he was not in Ireland to tell the country what to do, but to "listen and understand" why a majority of its citizens voted against the treaty in a June 12 referendum. Eurosceptics in Ireland claim the Lisbon treaty is little more than a cosmetically-altered version of the EU constitution Abducted Frenchman in Afghanistan released ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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