Irish Government Plans to Run Second Lisbon Treaty Referendum

The Irish Government bowed to pressure from European leaders yesterday and rang the starting bell on round two of its battle to pass the Lisbon treaty by rerunning the referendum that it lost decisively last summer.
Opponents of the EU treaty immediately announced the formation of a Europe-wide political party to field anti-treaty candidates in all 27 member states in next June's European Parliament elections to campaign against the EU's “growing anti-democratic tendency”.

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