10/07/2008
He's said
nothing new, but M. le president Sarkozy has
spelled it out again, this time to MEPs in Strasbourg: there will be no further EU enlargement until the
constitutional Lisbon treaty is in the bag.
Sarkozy also said the EU should not press Ireland to have a second referendum, while stressing that there should be no renegotiation on the "hard-forged treaty".
This just re-states the game plan, putting Cowen in the "hot seat", to let him "spontaneously" decide that the Irish actually want a second referendum â which will then carried out in the Spring, in time for the "colleagues" then to celebrate full ratification of the treaty before the euro-elections.
That, at least, is the plan â and so far they are sticking to it.
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