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...store on the main road from Drogheda to Dublin are blackboards with handwritten messages extolling the virtues of his rosés and reds. But passing motorists can barely see them with all the brightly colored posters and banners crowding them on either side. "Ireland Needs Europe," reads one. "Lisbon = Lower Wages," warns another...
...Irish voters will go to the polls for a second time to vote on the Lisbon Treaty, an agreement already ratified by most of the other 26 members of the European Union that aims to reform and streamline the newly expanded organization. In June 2008, Irish voters roundly rejected the treaty in the only national referendum to be held on it, sinking the hopes of E.U. backers across the continent. In the 15 months since that vote, however, Ireland's fortunes have changed dramatically in the global recession, and the government and many prominent business leaders are now urging residents...
...wine-store owner, who says he'll vote yes for a second time this week. Daly supplies wines to Drogheda's hotels and restaurants and says business has been "very tough" in the past year. "People may be unhappy with the government, but to punish them in the Lisbon vote would be the wrong thing to do. Being a member of the euro [currency zone] is what's got us through the crisis so far. I can't see Ireland surviving alone." (See 10 things you didn't know about money...
...official French policy. But several top political figures close to Sarkozy, who was one of the first world leaders to congratulate Merkel on her re-election, argue that it's time France and Germany seized the reins in Europe again. Assuming Irish voters approve the E.U.'s Lisbon Treaty on Oct. 2, a decade-long debate over the E.U.'s institutions should come to an end later this year, opening the way for a new wave of change. "We've had a decade of institutional masturbation, during which everyone lost their public opinion," one French government minister, speaking privately, says...
...unlikely event that Germans dump their popular Chancellor, Angela Merkel, in the country's election on Sept. 27, what would be the legacy of her four years in power? One key achievement, according to Volker Perthes, director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, is the Lisbon Treaty, which was designed to reform and streamline the workings of the European Union. "Without Merkel's involvement, and the role played by Germany, there would be no Lisbon Treaty now," Perthes says. But if that's the cornerstone of Merkel's foreign policy, she could see her legacy crumble less...