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• What is it about Ireland? | The World in 2009 | Economist.com
  Rich
  Oct 27 2008
  

  Quoted: Indeed, when it comes to Europe, most people imagine that it's the big countries such as France and Germany that set the direction for the European Union. But it turns out that it's really Ireland. By rejecting the EU's Lisbon treaty in a referendum in June, Irish voters have single-handedly changed the course of the European project. The treaty needs the support of all 27 EU member countries to come into effect; the Irish have probably killed it.

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