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...Inside the Brussels labyrinth, Mandelson should be good at pushing Blair's brand of reform - less regulation and more transparency. But Blair's biggest European problem is at home: the referendum he has promised on the E.U. constitution, likely to be held no sooner than 2006. Britain's highly Euro-skeptic voters will make this a seriously uphill fight, and one of Mandelson's key jobs will be to help lead it. Opponents of the constitution say: Bring him on. "Who better to put the case for the European constitution than a discredited politician whose name is a byword...
...traditional order that has put nation above club in players' commitments. A G-14, representing Europe's 18 leading clubs, has begun legal proceedings in an effort to force FIFA to share with clubs the revenue generated by such huge international tournaments as the World Cup and Euro 2004, as a way of compensating them for making their prized assets available for international duty. They've also tried to create their own permanent Champion's League, fencing off the elite from the rest of the clubs - such a supranational league currently exists, of course, but teams qualify on the basis...
...with them some of what they've learned when turning out for their national teams. Moreover, the trend today is increasingly shifting from having the national team coached by a national, to having it coached by a foreigner with good coaching credentials. The Greece team that won the recent Euro 2004 tournament was coached by the German Otto Rehnagel. In the final, they beat Portugal, coached by Brazil's Felipe Scolari. Today, almost every major African national team is run by a coach from France or Germany, England coached by Sweden's Sven Goran Erikson and Scotland...
...Green Party politicians wrote to the German Football Association demanding that players not be penalized for taking off their shirts on the pitch. The pair were shocked to see Portugal 's Cristiano Ronaldo get yellow carded for baring his chest to celebrate scoring a goal against the Netherlands during Euro 2004, and launched a campaign on behalf of female fans keen to appreciate players' "athletic torsos." Purely from an aesthetic point of view, of course...
...structure of E.U. funding. "I suspect the U.K. will be able to retain the rebate," says Robert Prior-Wandesforde, a European economist at HSBC. Last week the European Commission also celebrated a court ruling confirming that members must abide by the stability and growth pact, which mandates that euro-zone countries keep deficits under 3% of GDP. Germany and France - the euro zone's biggest economies - have already violated the pact (and look set to do so again this year). Last November, E.U. finance ministers effectively torpedoed proposed action against France and Germany; last week, the European Court of Justice...