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...says Abdelhakim Khaldi, head of Tunisia's public land agency: "We have land, we have water, we have human resources. And we're open to all possibilities. But there must be open access to European markets for these products. If there is, I can sign my name to a document that there will be no problem of emigrants. People here just need a job." It will take more than a presidential photo op in Paris to find them one. But it may be a start...
...neither Sarkozy nor anyone else has yet concocted a way out of the mess created by the Irish "no." His task will be all the more complicated after the obstreperous Polish President Lech Kaczynski announced Monday that he would not sign the Treaty, saying the document was pointless after Irish voters rejected it. Sarkozy and other leaders agreed last week to push the treaty forward in the 26 other member states, with an eye to the possibility that Ireland might eventually be compelled to put the question to the people again with more success...
...there are other options available. Ireland could be offered additional guarantees of its sovereignty. Such "explanatory protocols" would involve no changes to the treaty's text, and therefore little or no need for other governments to ratify the document. "Once re-ratification has been completed in the 26, it would be entirely appropriate for the Irish government to call for a second referendum," says Daniel Gros, Director of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). But he warned that stakes would be much higher. "This referendum would be about a different question: does Ireland wish to join the 26 with...
...schism long forecast for the Anglican Communion over the church's liberal stand on homosexuality may be getting closer. A document released by a group of conservative churchmen called the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFcon) made it clear that the more than 250 bishops who belong to the group intend to transform the 77-million-member global Communion, the world's third-largest affiliation of churches, because of their differences over the church's stance on gay priests and other issues...
Some observers, however, caution against too much doomsaying. The GAFcon statement, they point out, does not necessarily mean that Communion will break in half in the near future. For one thing, the document expresses the GAFcon bishops' intention to break specifically with churches like the Episcopal church in the U.S. and the Anglican Church of Canada, which make gay bishops or support such decisions - and does not call for secession from the worldwide group. Indeed, the conservatives say they would prefer that the Communion either become a looser confederation than it currently is or be "realigned" along more conservative principles...