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On 13 June the Irish voted no to the Lisbon Treaty. After a lively campaign and heated debate, 53.4% voted against, 46.6% for.
Ireland is the only country to have had a referendum on the treaty. This so-called “mini-treaty”, agreed upon by member states in late 2007, was what European Union leaders managed to salvage from the draft constitution after the no votes in France and Holland in 2005. Of the 27 member states, 18 have ratified the treaty and more will most likely follow. But the (…)