Ireland weighs up options over EU crisis

Article reports that the Irish government took the first concrete steps to address the crisis thrown up by its rejection of the European Union’s Lisbon reform treaty by commissioning July 2008 an opinion poll to find out just why its citizens voted the way they did.

ESO: Background information: Irish voters reject EU treaty http://www.europeansources.info/record/irish-voters-reject-eu-treaty/

BBC News, 16.7.08: Irish wary of 'second vote' idea http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7509374.stm

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