MEPs request that Ireland hold a second Lisbon referendum in spring

MEMBERS of the European Parliament were divided over whether to encourage Ireland to ratify the Lisbon treaty in time for next June’s elections.

In the end, they asked that the Irish Government put forward concrete proposals in December and hold a second referendum in the spring.

“There is no plausible reason why a second referendum in Ireland should be easier to win after the European Parliament elections than before,” says the report agreed by the Constitutional Affairs Committee.