The Need To Power Ahead

June 2008 | Risk Summary

Ireland's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty in July does not formally have any effect upon Croatia's hopes of early EU membership. However, it does leave the EU reform process in limbo, and risks shunting the Union back into a period of introspective paralysis. If a final deal takes years to reach - which is certainly a worst case scenario - it would blunt enthusiasm to let even more members join the bloc in the

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