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...Islamic law, or Shari'a. The AK party also faces huge challenges once it takes office, including a December meeting in Copenhagen at which Turkey hopes to be granted a date to start negotiations to join the European Union. That may be difficult, given the comment of Val?ry Giscard d'Estaing, head of the E.U.'s constitutional convention, that, in his opinion, Turkey's admission to the club would mean "the end of the European Union." Plus, the terms of the next year's International Monetary Fund loan package have to be hammered out, and a decision made on whether...
...often been thwarted in a career that stretches back four decades, so he's making up for it now. He earned his cowboy spurs in the 1970s, veering wildly between Reagan-Thatcher economics and French "laborism." He resigned as Prime Minister in 1976 after deciding that President Val?ry Giscard d'Estaing wasn't taking enough notice of him. In 1981, after founding his own party, he ran a presidential campaign that split the right and allowed the left to win the presidency. He tried again in 1988 and was routed by Fran?ois Mitterrand, finally making it to the Elys...
...Central Europeans will find their homecoming a rude awakening: "I don't believe the fairy tales about a community of loving European states. It's a power struggle, where each country tries to maximize its gains." In the European Convention now meeting under the leadership of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, delegates from around Europe, including the candidate countries, are exploring how to overhaul the E.U. to make it closer to voters and more effective. Its result, believes Liberal M.E.P. Andrew Duff, will be "a transfer of sovereignty" to the E.U.'s central institutions - which unless handled deftly could...
...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, he called for the Convention "to become the melting pot in which, month by month, a common approach is worked out." Only if that "Convention spirit" is maintained will Giscard arrive at a "broad consensus on a single proposal" with enough force to prevail once the Convention is over...
...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 from the 13 candidate countries. The real prospect that as many as 10 of them will join the European Union in 2004 was what spurred the organization to take on the task of reforming its institutions lest they freeze up when the newcomers arrive. Yet many of the candidates feel they have...