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Fri 06 Jun 2009Mixed reaction to Lisbon assurances
There has been mixed reaction to the news that guarantees to the Lisbon Treaty have been secured with political parties and employers organisations welcoming the news while anti-Lisbon campaigners were dismissive of the deal.
Earlier this morning it was announced that Taoiseach Brian Cowen had secured agreement on legal guarantees which pledge that nothing in the Lisbon Treaty will affect Ireland's constitutional provisions on abortion and the family, its right to determine its own tax regime, or force the state to sign up to European defence co-operation.
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