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Mr Sarkozy spent three minutes with each campaigner. (Photo: EUobserver)

Sarkozy suggests Irish revote in June 2009

French President Nicholas Sarkozy has proposed to the Irish prime minister that a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty be held on the same day as elections to the European Parliament next June.

Mr Sarkozy made the suggestion during a private discussion with Prime Minister, or Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, according to reports in the Irish Times, during a six-hour whistle-stop trip to Dublin to meet with government leaders and campaigners from both sides of the treaty battle.

At the sa...

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Mr Sarkozy spent three minutes with each campaigner. (Photo: EUobserver)

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