The Finnish Foreign Minister has said the EU will find a ‘joint common solution’ to the issue of the Lisbon Treaty.
Alexander Stubb was speaking in Dublin today, where he is been meeting with Minister for Foreign Affair Micheál Martin and other politicians, to discuss the Lisbon Treaty, among other issues.
Mr Stubb said he and his colleagues in Europe were ‘waiting for some kind of a response, some ideas, on how we take things forward.’
Mr Martin said the issue for us ‘as a country, as a people, is how we see ourselves in the next ten years within the European Union.’
On the subject of the financial crisis facing Europe and the rest of the world, Mr Stubb said ‘financial markets have not necessarily had enough regulation and we will have to have a look at that together.’
Minister Martin said ‘we have all seen the Iceland situation and if we are out on our own something similar could have happened in Ireland.’
