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Tue 12 Dec 2008EU states made major concession
OPINION:The Government may obtain legally watertight guarantees on the Lisbon Treaty for issues that do not, in reality, exist, writes Gavin Barrett
THE CONCLUSIONS of last week's European Council meeting in Brussels had not even been reached - or the announcement that there would be another referendum made - before the opening salvoes of debate were fired in an effort to determine the accepted narrative in the next Lisbon Treaty referendum.
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