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Sat 07 Jul 2009SPD minister warns Merkel not to allow CSU allies delay Lisbon Treaty
GERMAN FOREIGN minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has warned chancellor Angela Merkel not to allow the “populist” tactics of her Bavarian political allies to delay ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.
Ratification is on hold since the constitutional court, after dismissing challenges to the treaty, demanded a rewrite of an accompanying law to give the German parliament more say on the hand- over of powers to Brussels.
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