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Fri 01 Jan 2009Opting out of EU defence policy 'on the table'
MICHEÁL MARTIN INTERVIEW:Nothing has dominated Micheál Martin's term as Minister for Foreign Affairs as much as the Lisbon Treaty and so it will continue for some time yet.
At the EU summit in early December, after months of mulling over the conundrum posed by Ireland's rejection of the document, member states agreed that legal declarations would be offered on neutrality, taxation, abortion and the family before Irish voters would be asked to vote again.
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