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...flouting Brussels' rules on deficit spending, mostly with impunity. Governments have generally ignored or outright rejected the Commission's recommendations for making Europe "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" by 2010. And sometimes, the issues take on a personal edge. When José Manuel Barroso last month became the first European Commission President ever to address the French National Assembly, many Socialists and Communists booed and heckled. "Europe has more need for builders today than for accountants," Jean-Marc Ayrault, head of the Socialist deputies - many of whom believe Barroso worships the false gods...
...both of which are undergoing painful internal shakedowns. Hosting Chirac in Berlin last week, she aligned Germany with France in criticizing Britain's budget proposals. But Chirac knows that she may not feel bound to knuckle under to France in defending agricultural subsidies the way her predecessor did. HAPLESS BARROSO Even before former Portuguese Prime Minister José Manuel Barroso became Commission President in November 2004, he was a controversial choice. His liberal politics, and his presence in George W. Bush's "New Europe" coalition in Iraq, always raised doubts in France. This mistrust was exacerbated earlier this year, when...
...different can best friends' love lives be? Shortly after Ben Affleck married his high-profile, pregnant girlfriend Jennifer Garner, MATT DAMON, 34, proposed to his very low-profile, already-a-mom amore. She's Argentine-born LUCIANA BARROSO, 29, onetime Miami bartender and now full-time companion to the jet-setting actor. The pair have been dating for about two years but haven't announced a wedding date, which all the paparazzi think is very inconsiderate...
...lose. In France, President Jacques Chirac is foundering after his country's voters rejected the European Constitution; in Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair recently saw his parliamentary majority sharply reduced; and in recessionary Italy, Premier Silvio Berlusconi is struggling to cling to power. Meanwhile, Commission President José Manuel Barroso is still new in the job. Small wonder that last week's summit meeting involved little more than pruning the European agenda, and squabbling over what remains. Expansion to include Turkey? Don't hold your breath. Reform the Common Agricultural Policy? Not now. With many still stunned by the French...
...showed 55% of those questioned opposing the constitution; another showed 53% voting no, even though a plurality thought that yes would win in the end. Now President Jacques Chirac has been accused of trying to exercise improper control. After his terse exchanges with European Commission President José Manuel Barroso last month over a proposed directive to liberalize the European Union's service sector, Barroso was suddenly disinvited from a scheduled April 21 appearance on 100 Minutes for Convincing, a political show on the state-owned France 2 network. Marc Tessier, president of France Télévisions, which...