Anthony McIntyre, a former IRA life sentence prisoner and chief researcher on the Belfast project, defended the archive and blamed Boston College for failing to make clear to him and the interviewees that there was a legal treaty that allowed the British state to seize academic material from the United States.
The Franco-German timetable also raises the prospect that the negotiations could take place outside a formal EU treaty revision.
A veteran of the rebellions against the 1992 Maastricht treaty that put modern Tory hostility to Brussels on the political map, he was battling the EU when Nigel Farage was an unknown twentysomething working for a French bank.
Moving on 20 years to December 2011, when Cameron used Britain's veto to block an EU-wide treaty, the Sun greeted the news with a splash headlined "Up Eurs" with a photoshopped picture of "bulldog" Cameron giving a two-fingered salute.
In the event of a no vote the magnitude of the chaos across Europe would be far greater than when Ireland first rejected the Lisbon treaty.
No mission to tilt us to armed neutrality, which is the only alternative to a treaty relationship with the world's, the region's, dominant maritime power.
Other Republicans are seeking to effectively render the nuclear agreement a treaty requiring ratification by the Senate.
Collaery, who is one of a team of lawyers representing Timor-Leste in the international arbitration, has argued the raids were a deliberate effort by the Australian government to disrupt the proceedings, in which Timor-Leste alleges that in 2004 Australia improperly spied on the Timorese during treaty negotiations in order to extract a commercial benefit.
The former spy who is the star witness in the Timor-Leste espionage allegations against Australia received permission from Australia's inspector general of security to take legal advice about his concerns about intelligence gathering in 2004 during negotiations for a lucrative gas treaty, according to Timor-Leste's lawyer Bernard Collaery.
A senior Berlin official has said that assurances could be introduced during modest treaty revisions to ensure that the interests of Britain and other non-euro members are protected in the European single market.
"Reopening the Lisbon treaty and having to get it ratified by all member states is the last thing Merkel wants," said Kornelius.
