I have heard talk from prominent opinion formers of throwing Ireland out of the Union, including, even, from a newspaper editor in my own country. It was decided at the Conference of the Presidents not to submit the decision about Ireland and the Treaty of Lisbon reached in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs to a debate and a vote in plenary.
La Conférence des présidents a décidé de ne pas soumettre la décision de la commission des affaires constitutionnelles sur l’Irlande et le traité de Lisbonne à un débat et à un vote en plénière.