| EXECUTIVE SUMMARY | 1 |
| INTRODUCTION | 5 |
| 1. INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES (PARAGRAPHS 1-10 AND ANNEXES 1-4) | 5 |
| 1.1 IRELAND AND THE TREATY OF LISBON: THE PROCESS | 6 |
| 1.2 IRELAND AND THE TREATY OF LISBON: CONTENT, FORM AND TIMING | 6 |
| A matter of substance: security and defence policy | 7 |
| Ireland’s need for a Protocol: a question of form | 8 |
| The timing | 10 |
| 1.3 IS THE TREATY OF LISBON NOW SAFE? | 11 |
| 1.4 NOMINATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMMISSION | 11 |
| 2. ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND SOCIAL SITUATION (PARAGRAPHS 11-27) | 13 |
| 2.1 THE EU AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS: VARIATIONS ON A WELL-ESTABLISHED THEME | 6 |
| General strategy | 14 |
| Latvia | 15 |
| Milk quotas | 16 |
| 2.2 THE FINANCIAL MARKETS | 16 |
| Restoring the stability and functioning of the financial markets | 16 |
| Financial market reform | 17 |
| The international dimension | 22 |
| 2.3 EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT | 23 |
| 3. CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (PARAGRAPHS 28-35) | 24 |
| 4. ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION (PARAGRAPHS 36-39) | 25 |
| 5. EXTERNAL RELATIONS (PARAGRAPHS 40-43 PLUS ANNEXES 5-8) | 25 |
| 6. SOME CONCLUSIONS | 25 |
| ENDNOTES | 31 |
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