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18/06/2009
EU Summit To Discuss Irish Guarantees On The Lisbon Treaty
Taoiseach Brian Cowell and his European counterparts are today attending the EU summit in Brussels, where they are expected to agree on a series of legally binding assurances to Ireland on the operation of the Lisbon Treaty.
The first item on the agenda for the summit to discuss is the issue of the Irish guarantees.
These will be in a legally binding form, but the Government is looking to attach these assurances as a protocol to the EU treaties, obtaining an additional legal status.
The Irish Government said that a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty will not be held if there are not guarantees and a declaration on worker's rights.
A non-binding declaration will set up the agreements on their rights and the rights of governments to organise public services.
There will also be a detailed Irish national declaration on the operation of its military neutrality and how that policy works in the context of Europe’s common foreign and security policy and the European Defence Agency.
If the Lisbon Treaty comes into force, every country will keep a full-time member of the European Commission, as EU leaders decided last December.
(AC/BMcC)
The first item on the agenda for the summit to discuss is the issue of the Irish guarantees.
These will be in a legally binding form, but the Government is looking to attach these assurances as a protocol to the EU treaties, obtaining an additional legal status.
The Irish Government said that a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty will not be held if there are not guarantees and a declaration on worker's rights.
A non-binding declaration will set up the agreements on their rights and the rights of governments to organise public services.
There will also be a detailed Irish national declaration on the operation of its military neutrality and how that policy works in the context of Europe’s common foreign and security policy and the European Defence Agency.
If the Lisbon Treaty comes into force, every country will keep a full-time member of the European Commission, as EU leaders decided last December.
(AC/BMcC)
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