EU leaders have agreed to postpone a decision on the future of the bloc's Lisbon Treaty to their next summit in mid-October.
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Merkel drums up support for EU Treaty in Ireland ... statement issued Friday, the leaders noted that while 19 EU nations have ratified the treaty, meant to streamline the way the bloc operates as it expands, they "agreed that more time was needed to analyse the situation." Irish voters rejected the charter in a referendum a week ago, sparking a new period of EU turmoil as all 27 countries have to endorse the document for it to come into effect. The leaders, at a two-day summit in Brussels, had been waiting for Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen to give them some indication of how he thought the problem could be handled, but he asked for more time to devise a strategy.
(Deutsche Welle)
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