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...David summit with President George W. Bush. The ban had been in place since mad cow disease was discovered on American farms in 2003. With the disease in abeyance, Lee removed the barrier to improve ties and to help clear the way for ratification of an important free-trade agreement with the U.S. But to many Koreans, it looked like the President was selling out to Washington, in the process endangering public safety as well as hurting Korea's agricultural industry. On June 1, an estimated 40,000 demonstrators clogged the main thoroughfares of downtown Seoul to protest the decision...
...lift its ban on U.S. beef imports after thousands of protesters clashed with police in Seoul. The ban had been instituted following a 2003 outbreak of mad-cow disease. Koreans accuse newly elected President Lee Myung Bak of caving to Washington after Congress linked a $29 billion free-trade agreement to the reopening of the Korean market, formerly the third largest worldwide for U.S. beef...
...There are now 27 countries making up the membership of the Union so the time has come to further review its political and administrative mechanisms. There has been an attempt over the last few years to address the functioning of the institutions. There was an agreement of member governments during the Irish Presidency of Europe on a European Constitution but this failed when it was turned down in a referendum in both The Netherlands and France. Now the campaign is on to have what is termed the Reform Treaty or Lisbon Treaty accepted. The real debate on this treaty, which...
...Union not to accept the treaty, that this is the end of the European experiment. If this should happen I forecast delay, deliberation, bargaining and compromise as these have been the tools which have always been employed in times of difficulty in order to find the basis for agreement at a later stage. It is through this approach that the European Union has maintained respect and unity of purpose between member states over the last 50 years...
...historic occasion of Faust’s inauguration was in bad taste and only served to further turn faculty and administrative opinion against the UC and its goals.Ultimately, the protracted fight between College and UC led to a lot of fuss and little progress, as the final agreement the two sides reached represented an almost complete capitulation to the College’s original demands. The outcome made one wonder what the UC was trying to accomplish by burning precious political capital in a bloody battle against a more or less undefeatable adversary.However, when there was a willingness among students...