BRUSSELS: European Union leaders struggled to find a "Plan B" yesterday after Irish voters rejected the bloc's reforming Lisbon Treaty. Irish voters rejected the treaty by 53.4 per cent to 46.6pc.
Presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers across the 27 nation club expressed regret at the vote and said new efforts must be made to get the treaty through after admitting that opponents in Ireland had won, European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso insisted that other countries should continue the ratification of the treaty. But it was Barroso who said last month that there is "no Plan B" if the treaty was defeated.
If you try to put a lot of power in one place it will collapse