I'm responding to your point about the Council's lack of political capital.  Its a political/cultural problem, not a technical legal problem.  Irish people have no role in electing Sarkozy - therefore they will not take their instructions from him. Period.  You/I can lecture as  much as we like about powersharing, previous Treaty obligations yadda yadda yadda.  Sarkozy doesn't speak for the Irish - and by presuming to do so he is swelling the NO camp with every word.

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