The Irish agree; now will everyone else kindly do the same?
Ireland's voters have given the green light to EU enlargement. But EU members are not entirely at one with each other, let alone with all the candidate countries
AT THE second attempt they gave the answer the establishment wanted: by 63% to 37%, Ireland's voters—the half of them that bothered to vote—said yes to the European Union's Nice treaty, and EU enlargement, to take in ten new countries, can go ahead. Now for the hard part: sorting out the thorniest disagreements within the EU, and between it and the candidates.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “The Irish agree; now will everyone else kindly do the same?”
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