French President Nicolas Sarkozy heads to Dublin this Monday to discuss the way forward after Ireland's shock rejection of a key European Union treaty.
Talks with Prime Minister Brian Cowen as well as pro- and anti-Lisbon Treaty lobbyists are planned, after Sarkozy sparked outrage by suggesting Ireland should vote again. Protests are also expected during his brief visit. Sarkozy insists he is not France rejects veiled Muslim wife ...
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Northern Ireland's Paisley steps down ... coming to Ireland to tell the country what to do, but to "listen and understand" why a majority of its citizens voted against the treaty in a June 12 referendum. Eurosceptics in Ireland claim the Lisbon treaty is little more than a cosmetically-altered version of the doomed EU constitution torpedoed by French and Dutch voters in referendums in 2005. Ireland was the only state to hold a referendum on the document, which has to be ratified by all countries in the bloc to take effect.
(Deutsche Welle)
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