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...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...
BELGIUM Democracy Rules Under the chairmanship of former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, representatives of the 15 current members of the European Union, as well as the 13 states applying to join, met to discuss reforms to the 45-year-old organization. Even as the Convention discussed how to make the E.U. more democratic and efficient, critics denounced the decision to allow a 12-member Presidium, not the full 105-delegate meeting, to decide the agenda...
...institutions without giving up the democratic control that now resides mostly in national capitals? How to untangle the often overlapping competences of local, regional, national and Continental governments? At a scheduled pace of one session a month under the stern leadership of former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the Convention has a Herculean task to complete within a year's time...
...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...
Schuller's testimony is expected to back up allegations made by Jean-Claude Méry, a real-estate promoter and ex-rpr official, in a videotaped confession recorded before his death from cancer in 1999. As a covert funding organizer, Méry explained how - while Chirac was mayor of Paris - tenders for public works contracts in the city were systematically rigged in return for kickbacks. "We only worked on the orders of Mr. Chirac," said Méry, who described handing over $665,000 in cash in Chirac's presence when he was Prime Minister...