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Sat 10 Oct 2009Irish support for Blair was damaging to our interests
The Government should resist inflating the role of the president of the European Council, writes GARRET FITZGERALD
AS HAS been widely publicised, the Lisbon Treaty proposes the replacement of the present six-monthly alternating chairmanship of the European Council of heads of state and government through the election, by a qualified majority of the council, of a person who will chair their four annual meetings for a 2½-year term, renewable for a second period.
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