Refusing to take Ireland's no for an answer, leading politicians in Berlin and Paris prepared for a crucial EU summit in Brussels this week by trying to ringfence the Irish, while demanding that the reform treaty be ratified by the rest of the EU. The scene is set for a clash between the Irish and their European partners after a Dublin minister and sources in the ruling Fianna Fail party ruled out any chance of a second Irish referendum on the treaty.
Note EU-Digest: Whoever was behind this no-vote movement in Ireland, which had nothing to do with democracy and all about manipulation, should be made to understand that "you can not have your cake and eat it also".
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