• 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Irish only approved the Nice treaty, which dealt with enlargement of the EU, at the second time of asking last year.

    ECONOMIST: Keeping the krona | The

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