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...future Prime Minister; after hours of surgery to repair wounds suffered when an unidentified man stabbed the mother of two as she was shopping in a department store; in Stockholm. The motivation for the assault is unknown, but it occurred days before a referendum on whether to adopt the euro, an expensive, controversial proposal Lindh had publicly championed...
...here after the E.U. expands next May. Even so, true believers have long dreamed that all of Europe would one day become a single homeland. That sweet dream took some more hard knocks last week. First the Swedes - a reasonable people famously in favor of solidarity - resoundingly rejected the euro, which many see as the political and economic linchpin of a European homeland. That blow came as the week began. By the time it ended, Britain, France and Germany had failed to agree on a timetable for handing over authority in Iraq. And France and Germany had stoked anger among...
Some allegiances matter more than others, and Sweden proved the point. No one in that country, grieving over the senseless murder of the pro-euro Foreign Minister, Anna Lindh (see box), considered it a blot on her memory that 56% of those voting wanted to keep the krona. Indeed, it was largely in her honor that 82.6% of the electorate turned out to vote - they paid their respects by participating, not by agreeing with her. Their anti-euro sentiment is shared by many in the U.K. Two key factors drive that opposition, and prevent Tony Blair from calling a referendum...
...INDICATORS Down With Price Rises Italian consumers boycotted shops in protest against perceived price hikes since the introduction of the euro last year. Consumers' groups claimed almost half of the country's shoppers took part, costing retailers an estimated €300 million...
KENNETH ROGOFF, the International Monetary Fund's chief economist, on the euro zone's role in the global economic recovery