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...precisely because of Iraq, there's a desire to come together. It just feels like the chemistry is right." But right for whom? The leaders themselves maintain that their partnership can bring direction and focus to a Union that's in disarray over everything from the Stability and Growth Pact to the proposed new constitution. But others fear that the Big Three are getting together to dictate terms to the rest of Europe. The trio could be the engine of a newly invigorated Europe - or the impetus for a slow-motion car wreck. It certainly won't hurt...
...this is the area that arouses so much suspicion among smaller states, who fear any initiative will be designed more to benefit the Big Three than the E.U. as a whole. Smaller states are still smarting over the laxity shown when France and Germany violated the Stability and Growth Pact last year, after many of them had to endure painful budget cuts and pay fines for similar failings. Last week, Portuguese Prime Minister José Manuel Dur?o Barroso said, "We do not accept that two or three countries should make the decisions and then serve us up the meal...
...vote turned the clock back to Oct. 4, 2000," Tadic said, referring to the day before Milosevic was toppled in a popular uprising. Voters are expressing their distaste, too. Leaving the parliament building after the deal was announced, Kostunica ran a gauntlet of angry ex-supporters who denounced the pact. "I voted for Kostunica, but I never expected him to deal with Milosevic's cronies," said a disgusted Ljubica Zivkovic, 55, a grocery store owner from Belgrade. "I thought I'd never see their faces again." Kostunica's alliance with the SPS will also increase suspicion in the West...
University officials in charge of community relations deserve praise for the pact they brokered last month with residents of the Agassiz neighborhood north of Harvard Yard...
...million troops mobilized along a volatile border and the prospect of a war going nuclear, the talk-heavy, accomplishment-light seven-nation South Asian Area Regional Conference (SAARC) was even less useful than ever. Last week, SAARC was hauled back from the morgue, when the seven countries signed a pact to make South Asia a free-trade zone by 2006. The reason for the success: India and Pakistan were on board. More proof of something big in the air came a day later, when the two rivals announced that they would resume a "composite dialogue"?a code signifying that they...