Probably a casualty of the media focus on the election. From what I read (which is very little), the Nice Treaty wasn't absolutely necessary for EU enlargement ... so I'm not sure what it was meant to achieve. My info on the subject is superficial to say the least, but I've seen one Irish gov't spokesperson say that Ireland wouldn't vote for it because the beneficiaries would be East Europeans, not Irish. Which seemed more than a bit off, seeing as the Republic has certainly had its good long time in the financial sun.

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