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Irish voters rejected the Treaty of Nice narrowly in 2001, but a year later a second referendum was held and the Yes camp won.
BBC: Q&A: Irish treaty referendum
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Moreover, all the legal and institutional arrangements needed to cope with enlargement were, in fact, settled by the Treaty of Nice, which was agreed less than three years ago.
ECONOMIST: Charlemagne
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That means that under the recent treaty of Nice it actually gains members - there would be more members of the European parliament in the future.
BBC: The future of Europe: Justin Webb quizzed
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The Amsterdam summit in 1997 introduced Mr Blair to the niceties of EU treaty-making, and was followed soon afterwards by the ghastly four-night negotiation of the Nice treaty in 2000.
ECONOMIST: Britain and Europe
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EU's leaders are determined to reverse or circumvent the Irish rejection of the Nice treaty.
ECONOMIST: The rioters did make the leaders look more remote
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Poland objects mainly to a proposed new voting system for national governments that would reduce the generous weights promised to Poland and Spain under the Nice treaty of 2000.
ECONOMIST: Polish politics
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The Irish only approved the Nice treaty, which dealt with enlargement of the EU, at the second time of asking last year.
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