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Merkel confirms Berlin will not permit fiscal treaty alterations
Baku, May 25 (AZERTAC). Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Germany will not allow any changes to the fiscal treaty, before or after the Irish referendum.
“Four countries have already ratified, so no change will happen,” said the chancellor`s spokesman, Steffen Seibert.
Yesterday Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore insisted there will be no changes to the fiscal treaty text on which the electorate will vote next Thursday.
“One of the issues that is very much out of the way is that somehow this treaty is going to be reopened or changed. The summit meeting made that very clear. The text of the treaty is what people are voting on and that is not going to change,” Mr Gilmore said in Belfast yesterday evening.
The Tánaiste said that from his experience of the referendum campaign he believed people understood “that it is important to have a stable euro, to have investor confidence, and to have access to emergency money”.
On their return home from Wednesday`s late-night Brussels summit Mr Kenny and Mr Gilmore maintained that momentum was gaining behind a growth agenda.