Ireland is ready to call a rerun of its referendum on the Lisbon treaty in the autumn if EU leaders meeting today agree to a series of guarantees stating that the controversial document will not change the country’s taxation, abortion laws or military neutrality.
The decision will come exactly a year after Irish voters stunned EU leaders by rejecting the redrawn EU constitution and follows polls suggesting that they are prepared to back the document, which creates the jobs of EU president and foreign minister.
Brian Cowen, the Taoiseach, astonished fellow leaders at their summit in Brussels last night by demanding that the guarantees he needs to win the referendum must be in the form of a legal protocol attached to a future EU treaty. The next one would probably be the accession treaty for Croatia, which hopes to join in 2011.
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