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Friday, was the last before the Czech Republic assumes the rotating EU
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number of Irish-inspired concessions on the Lisbon treaty. All this was
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Current AffairsNATO backs US missile defense plan, but critics remain unconvinced
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of a tracking radar in the Czech Republic and interceptor missiles in
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