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5 October 2009 By Pierre Briancon

A no would have been worse, but the Irish approval of the Lisbon treaty isn t a panacea. Obstacles to ratification remain, and the accord only offers marginal gains in EU decisionmaking and diplomatic clout. Those won t help much with Europe s big postrecession challenges.

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