Opening up the Lisbon Treaty for new negotiations?

2nd part of the series on the EU after the Irish No to the Lisbon Treaty The European Council on June 19/20, 2008 did not indicate a way out of the EU crisis which resurfaced with the Irish „No“ to the Lisbon Treaty on June 12, 2008. Nevertheless, one or two likely options are being sketched on the horizon. Option one is to provide Ireland with a protocol to the Lisbon Treaty, which takes into account Ireland’s most important problems with the Treaty and possibly grants certain opt-outs of community policies. We discussed this scenario, which seems to have the largest support among EU member states at the moment here, explaining why the double-Nice-referendum of 2001/2002 cannot simply be repeated. Option two would be to open up the Lisbon Treaty for new negotiations, meaning that all parties, even the 18 which have already... [read full story]