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Wed 06 Jun 2009Clashes in Westminster over Ireland's EU guarantees
BRITISH PRIME minister Gordon Brown and Conservative leader David Cameron have clashed over the nature of the “clarifications” and legal assurances given to enable the Irish Government to hold a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
Reporting on the outcome of last week’s EU summit in Brussels Mr Brown insisted in the House of Commons yesterday that the guarantees given to Ireland in negotiations with the EU would “clarify but not change” the treaty.
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