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Wed 06 Jun 2008Crisis? What crisis? The EU can simply get on with it
The EU fared just fine with 27 members and no Lisbon Treaty. There is nothing to stop it going forward, writes Vincent Browne.
THERE IS an obvious and simple way that the EU can respond to Ireland's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty: continue as it was. The EU has fared just fine over the last four years with the arrangements as they were, with 25 and then 27 member states. No gridlock, no chaos. Now just continue as it was going. Every member state retaining a commissioner, the qualified majority voting staying as it was with the plethora of vetoes, which were hardly ever exercised anyway.
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