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  European Union (Amendment) Bill
  
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  <p>Those voting Content failed to carry an <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/glossary/?gl=114">amendment</a> to the <a href="http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2007-08/europeanunionamendment.html">European Union (Amendment) Bill</a> that would have compel the Secretary of State to give an undertaking to:</p>
  
  <blockquote>"uphold the freedom of Her Majesty's Government to undertake any action on the international scene that he perceives to be in the interests of the United Kingdom without consulting the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_council">European Council</a> if he thinks that the security interests of the United Kingdom so require."</blockquote>
  
  <p>In other words, the amendment sought to preserve Britain's right to act internationally without recourse to the European Council.</p> 
  
  <p pid="a.500.2/2" pwmotiontext="divided">Their Lordships divided: Contents, 65; Not-Contents, 170.</p>
  
  
  
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