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Wed 05 May 2009Government puts Lisbon protocols on fast track
THE GOVERNMENT is fast-tracking work on the guarantees it wants on the Lisbon Treaty to avoid the possibility that Czech president Vaclav Klaus could wreck the EU summit in June.
With the help of new Czech prime minister Jan Fisher it hopes to persuade all 27 EU states to agree to the legal guarantees at a foreign ministers’ meeting on June 15th.
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