Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern is pessimistic about reaching an agreement on the EU Constitution during the Irish EU Presidency believing the negotiations could easily continue into 2005.
"It could go into 2005," said Mr Ahern in an interview with the Irish newspaper, the Sunday Business Post.
"There certainly was no mood to settle in Brussels, and no mood that we should settle in the short term," continued the Taoisea...
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