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No other referendums are definite yet, according to the EUobserver:

Mr Fogh Rasmussen is meeting with UK prime minister Gordon Brown, who himself is also resisting domestic political pressure for an EU referendum, in London on Wednesday (10 October).

Both leaders are keenly aware that a decision to hold a referendum in either country could create a domino effect and put pressure on the other.

So far, only Ireland has said it will definitely have a referendum. The Netherlands - another country where a referendum had been a possibility - recently said it would not have a public poll.


Denmark and the UK are both countries where there is a lot of pressure to hold a referendum, but where the leaders are set against it.
by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Fri Oct 19th, 2007 at 06:31:58 AM EST
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Because they believe they would lose it. They don't really have it in them to campaign forcefully for the Political Europe.

We have met the enemy, and it is us — Pogo
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Oct 19th, 2007 at 06:33:43 AM EST
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Brown would probably lose it no matter what he does. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, I don't know. Not that I hold him in that much higher regard, but euroscepticism is a different beast in Denmark.

The leader of the Czech Republic also seems opposed to a referendum. See MEP Richard Corbett, here.

The reform treaty does not establish anything like the Political Europe. It is what Blair already claimed of the constitutional treaty. A clean-up exercise.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Fri Oct 19th, 2007 at 06:53:56 AM EST
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