The European Union's new treaty, rejected by Irish voters last week, faced parliamentary debate in Britain on Wednesday.
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Merkel calls on Irish to approve Lisbon Treaty ... Treaty for the third and final time. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has backed other EU members in insisting that the ratificartion process continues. Meanwhile, on the eve of the EU summer summit in Brussels, scheduled for Thursday, hundreds of farmers, truckers and taxi drivers are blocking access to the Belgian capital and demanding aid to ease the effect of skyrocketing fuel prices.
(Deutsche Welle)
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