Two additional member states have left the door open to opt out of a charter boosting the civil and social rights of EU citizens, it has emerged from the small print contained in the recently agreed outline for a new EU treaty.
A report in today's Irish Times newspaper says that both Ireland and Poland have kept open the option of joining London, which secured a strong protocol limiting the application of the charter in the UK.
At the end of the long declaration on the charter, th...
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