EU brings Dell aid to Ireland before vote
2009-09-19 16:04:54
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The European Commission offered 14.8 million euros (13.3 million pounds) to help workers let go from Dell's Irish plant on Saturday, just weeks before the Irish vote on Lisbon's reform treaty.
Ireland has to ratify the Lisbon treaty, which is designed to give Brussels a stronger role in world affairs, in order for it to take effect across the 27-member bloc.
Irish voters, accounting for less than 1 percent of the union's near half a billion population, rejected the charter in a referendum last year and a second "No" would likely plunge the union into a crisis.
The importance of Europe for the battered Irish economy is the central theme of the government's campaign to ratify the EU's reform treaty on October 2 and Barroso reinforced that argument.
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2009-09-19 16:04:54
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The European Commission offered 14.8 million euros (13.3 million pounds) to help workers let go from Dell's Irish plant on Saturday, just weeks before the Irish vote on Lisbon's reform treaty.
Ireland has to ratify the Lisbon treaty, which is designed to give Brussels a stronger role in world affairs, in order for it to take effect across the 27-member bloc.
Irish voters, accounting for less than 1 percent of the union's near half a billion population, rejected the charter in a referendum last year and a second "No" would likely plunge the union into a crisis.
The importance of Europe for the battered Irish economy is the central theme of the government's campaign to ratify the EU's reform treaty on October 2 and Barroso reinforced that argument.
http://www.sharenet.co.za/v3/news_disp.php?id=96240
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