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EU 'spirit of compromise' 2:35pm on 17 Dec 2008 I find this "courage" comment mystifying.

If Sarkozy had courage he'd have put the treaty to another referendum in France. Instead the entire French political establishment of right and left chickened out of that and came up with a legalistic mechanism to avoid having to do it.

The same for the Dutch.

They are all scared of the treaty being rejected by their electorate.

Now the EU political class have ganged up on the Irish government and bullied them into another vote. If the Irish government had courage it would have invited them all to put it to referendums in all their own countries. Instead it chickened out and capitulated without a fight.

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