The latest version of the EU rule book, the Lisbon treaty, is a sorry case in point.

欧盟新出台的《里斯本条约》（欧盟规则的最新版本）就是一个典型的失败例子。

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Piet Dankert, then Europe minister, drafted a version of the Maastricht treaty that was too federalist even for Luxembourg (it was rejected).

当时负责欧洲事务的部长Piet Dankert起草了一份马斯特里赫特条约，就连卢森堡人都觉得过于联邦主义了(这一版本最终被拒绝了)。

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He says that it would be "virtually impossible" to make the Irish vote again on a tweaked version of the treaty.

他认为只要对条约加以进行一定的修改，完全可以让爱尔兰人投票通过。

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