Ahern in bid to repair stalled EU talks

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was urging European governments today to resume talks for a European constitution that collapsed last December in a dispute over voting rights.

In a report, Ahern, who is hosting the two-day European Union summit in Brussels, said his bilateral talks with EU leaders since January had revealed “a strong shared sense of the desirability of concluding negotiations as soon as possible”.