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Thu 11 Nov 2008Common solution needed on Lisbon, says minister
THE EUROPEAN Union needed to find a "common solution" to the situation arising from Ireland's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, Finland's foreign minister Alexander Stubb told the Lisbon subcommittee at Leinster House yesterday.
He said he was opposed to any attempt at threatening Ireland with exclusion from a "core Europe" because, as with nuclear weapons, "you can threaten with it, but never use it".
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