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Sat 07 Jul 2008Legislative route may be best way to get around Lisbon
INSIDE POLITICS:An attempt to ratify the treaty in the Oireachtas would provoke furious controversy, but it may be the best choice of a bad lot, writes Stephen Collins.
PRESIDENT NICOLAS Sarkozy's suggestion that Ireland will have to vote again on the Lisbon Treaty has provoked indignation in Government circles and acted as a red rag to the range of anti-EU groups that campaigned for a No vote in last month's referendum. It has increased the terror among Ministers and Irish officials about what the flamboyant president of France is likely to say during his visit here on Monday.
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