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Thu 12 Dec 2008Merkel open to concession for Ireland
THE GERMAN government is "sympathetic" to the idea of retaining one EU commissioner per member state if it would help the Government in any second Lisbon Treaty referendum, according to officials in Berlin.
Chancellor Angela Merkel told Taoiseach Brian Cowen in Berlin last night that she was keeping an "open mind" on how best to resolve the Lisbon impasse.
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