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Though allusions to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia were rife, the two gatherings are vastly dissimilar. In Philadelphia, a group of English-speaking males who had fought on the same side in a successful war of independence had a common vision of democratic government relatively unclouded by cultural and...
The same heads of government, meeting last December at the Palace of Laeken in Brussels, plumped for Giscard to head the Convention. Though he is certainly an ideal avatar of French grandeur, with his aristocratic bearing and keen intelligence, many have questioned Giscard's credentials for pointing the E.U. toward...
Giscard recognizes the challenge. In a 40-minute speech that modulated from French to English to German and back to French, he conjured up the difficulties of steering the Convention past "the yawning abyss of failure" and through "the narrow portal of success." Rather than a forum for diverging opinions...
It's an old game. As long as E.U. policy is perceived as being made by a cabal of unelected Eurocrats and government leaders in closed sessions, voters can be sold the line that the Union is some malign force. The truth is that Brussels is nothing more or less...
In his opening speech, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing greeted Convention delegates in all 11 official languages of the European Union - and in Polish. It was a nice gesture, even though Poles said he mangled the words. But it was hardly enough. Almost half of the national delegates are...