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EU 'must address global issues'

The Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said the EU is not stuck in a quagmire following the Irish rejection of the Lisbon treaty.

And he said French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in a "playful mood" when he implied that the European trade commissioner Peter Mandelson was to blame for the rejection.

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