Kenny invites heads of 10 EU states to Ireland

THE heads of 10 EU governments are expected to come to Ireland at the invitation of opposition leader Edna Kenny once the date of the Lisbon Treaty referendum is announced.

Fine Gael leader Mr Kenny is one of the vice-presidents of the European People’s Party (the largest group in the European Parliament) and will host a meeting of the EPP in Ireland, he said.

In Brussels yesterday he had meetings with the group’s most senior EU members, Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the Commission and Hans Gert Pottering, president of the European Parliament.