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Ireland's referendum on the Lisbon Treaty is on 12 June (Photo: EUobserver)

Velleity threatens Irish referendum, despite urgent global concerns

Phoenix, the American space probe, has just landed after its 680 million kilometre hop to Mars. Already it has returned beautiful and crystal clear pictures to Earth of a red landscape, flat and arid. Did this once support life is the question the mission is contriving to answer.

Some will no doubt say that this is what Earth will look like in a few centuries unless global warming can be arrested. Whether the warming might not actually be arrestable is a thought perhaps too horrible t...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

Ireland's referendum on the Lisbon Treaty is on 12 June (Photo: EUobserver)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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