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EUROPE  NICE TREATY & ENLARGEMENT - 04 July 2001

EUROPE  NICE TREATY & ENLARGEMENT - 04 July 2001

Dr Julian Lewis: I thank my right hon. Friend [Francis Maude] for giving way. Did he notice that only a few minutes ago the Foreign Secretary conceded that if, in the end, the Irish do not ratify the Nice treaty, that treaty will be dead? Would my right hon. Friend be as interested as I would be to hear what the Foreign Secretary would propose with regard to enlargement if the Nice treaty were not ratified? Presumably, he would propose precisely the alternative treaty to which my right hon. Friend is rightly referring.