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...President is not the real problem: "There has been an erosion of the feeling among the French of the country's place in Europe. [Barroso] makes an easy scapegoat, but the problems are much deeper." Either way, Chirac's will should be tested this week, when ex-Commissioner Frits Bolkestein, the original author of the services directive, will appear on another state-owned network, France 3. Never one to be outdone, Chirac hopes to limit the damage when he launches his own campaign for the referendum on Thursday. He will answer questions on the private TF1 network from a studio...
...Jean-Pierre Raffarin pointedly asked in the Wall Street Journal: "Do we want the river of Islam to enter the riverbed of secularism?" Austrian E.U. Commissioner for Agriculture Franz Fischler opined that Turkey was culturally "oriental," geographically "Asian" and that accession would open "a geostrategic Pandora's box." Frits Bolkestein, the Dutch E.U. Commissioner for the Internal Market, said that admitting Turkey could mean that the historic defeat of Ottoman armies at the gates of Vienna in 1683 "would have been in vain." It's not clear what all this sound and fury really signifies. Technically, the E.U. has already...
...FRITS BOLKESTEIN, the E.U.'s internal market Commissioner, slamming France 's and Germany 's interventionist industrial policies
Incompatible with laws in Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere mandating employee representation on boards The issue risks becoming a new flashpoint in trade relations between the U.S. and the European Union, already strained by disputes over steel tariffs and tax breaks for American exporters. E.U. Commissioner Frits Bolkestein complained in a letter to sec chairman Harvey L. Pitt on Aug. 29 that "the implementation of some of the provisions of the Act might have undesirable extraterritorial consequences or they might create unnecessary difficulties for European companies." Among his concerns: a new U.S. body that will oversee auditing firms will regulate...
...deregulation process is bogged down in the constant struggle to balance social protection with efficiency, plus many countries' desire to retain their national champions. "Most of the key reforms are still on paper, waiting to be approved and implemented," says Dutch E.U. internal market and taxation Commissioner Frits Bolkestein. "We can't keep on saying, 'The check is in the mail...
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