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The European Commission has called for ratification of the Lisbon treaty to continue, despite the No result in Ireland's referendum.
"This vote should not be seen as a vote against the EU… [It] has not solved the problems which the Lisbon Treaty is designed to solve," commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said in Brussels on Friday (13 June).
In a joint statement later on, France and Germany also called for the ratification of the Lisbon treaty to continue.
"The ratification procedure has already been achieved in 18 countries. Therefore we hope that the other member states will continue the process," the Franco-German declaration reads.
Britain has already said it would press ahead with the ratification, according to the BBC.
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