In any case, a new treaty is required before Croatia joins, since its votes and parliamentary seats were not fixed under the 2000 Nice treaty.

无论如何，必须在克罗地亚加入前出台一个新的条约，因为它的票数和议会席位在2000年的尼斯条约中并没有确定。

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The Irish, it is said, should remember what happened when they said No to the Nice treaty in 2001: they were simply invited to vote again.

有说法是，爱尔兰人对2001年否决奈斯条约时的情景记忆犹新，欧盟的解决方案只是让爱尔兰再进行一次投票。

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Under the voting rules of the Nice treaty, in force until 2014, Visegrad countries have as many votes in the EU as France and Germany combined.

在尼斯条约(有效期到2014年)投票制度下Visegrad集团4国在欧盟中拥有的总票席与法国和德国的总票席是一样多的。

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As Ireland's recent vote on the Nice treaty demonstrated, such things cannot be taken for granted.

ECONOMIST: The EU summit

Ireland's voters may yet reject the Nice treaty, for a second time, later this month.

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EU's leaders are determined to reverse or circumvent the Irish rejection of the Nice treaty.

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