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Tue 04 Apr 2009Risky ploy ahead of our biggest foreign policy decision in years
EUROPEAN DIARY:The closure of National Forum on Europe was not fully explained by the Government, writes JAMIE SMYTH
WITH THE country in an economic mess most public servants knew this month’s Budget would hit them hard in their pockets and result in the postponement or scrapping of some Government projects. But if there was one organisation that might have expected to escape the chop surely it was the National Forum on Europe, the body set up in 2001 to facilitate a debate on Ireland’s EU membership following the No vote to the Nice treaty.
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