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...there was hurt talk of "respect" for the vote. In private, there were twinges of panic. At a summit in Brussels the following week, Europe's leaders agreed to give the Irish four months to find a way forward; the Union will return to the Lisbon treaty in October. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose country holds the rotating E.U. presidency, has set a deadline of the end of the year for Europe to overcome the Irish problem. He has traveled to Dublin on a listening tour of Irish voters, backpedaling from his intimations that they'd need to hold...
...geopolitical experiment that has spread peace and prosperity across a continent that, within living memory, had little of either. And yet when asked to endorse its leaders' plans for the future of the Union, European voters have a habit of being ornery. The Irish followed where the Dutch and French led in 2005, rejecting in their own referendums the proposed European constitution. The Irish no, in other words, was one of those moments that showed the fault lines in Europe's union, between young and old, élites and ordinary folk, and - especially - between Brussels insiders and the citizens they...
...nostalgia, in central Virginia, amid the faded glories of America's pre-Civil War South. But in Italy, another old world still coming back to life after World War II, he sifted the rubble for a pictorial language that could reach back much farther, past civilization itself. Like the French artist Jean Dubuffet, he found it in graffiti, a scrawl that felt older and wilder than antiquity. In Twombly's paintings hectic scribbles and smudges of color might share the canvas with a crudely drawn word or phrase that harks back to the classical world - Hérodiade, Leandro...
...limits on how far the process of integration should go. At the same time, there is a sense of bafflement that others do not share the same sense of idealism that many in Brussels insist motivates their work. News of the Irish no hit Brussels "like a bomb," says French stagiaire Renaud Savignat, standing amid the throng of young professionals drinking beers outside the cafés lining the Place du Luxembourg...
...message out. Lobbyists expressed chagrin that they spend their days concentrating so hard on wooing the E.U.'s élites that they forgot to tell Europe's citizens why Brussels' work was important. Younger staff and stagiaires - many of whom hadn't been around for the Dutch and French votes in 2005 - were indignant that Brussels' industry went unrecognized: "I see my boss, every day - you can't believe how hard she works!" says Cécile Astuguevieille, a French law student interning with a member of the European parliament. "National governments don't relay our work," agrees her friend...