DUBLIN â Ireland voted overwhelmingly to ratify a treaty intended to bind European Union member states to tighter budgetary controls in an effort to address the sovereign debt crisis that is threatening the euro. But turnout was low, 50.3 percent; 60.3 percent of those who voted approved the new measures. After the official announcement on Friday evening, Prime Minister Enda Kenny described the re
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