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...given back to the member states." What happens if some countries don't ratify the constitution? Although technically they all must do so for it to take effect, those who reject may find the others devise a way to go on without them. Charles Grant, the pro-E.U. director of the Centre for European Reform in London, thinks France, Germany and several others will form a core group determined to integrate harder and faster. "The whole point for them is the institutions, not specific policies," he says. Assuming the E.U. continues as is, they will vote as a bloc...
...Vladimir Spidla called an emergency meeting of the Social Democrats' leadership Denmark Ex-PM Poul Nyrup Rasmussen's Social Democrats romped, taking almost one-third of the vote - double their 1999 result The ruling Liberals paid for backing the Iraq war. Euro-skeptics did badly, bucking the anti-E.U. trend France Discontent with President Jacques Chirac's government helped propel the opposition Socialists to victory PM Jean-Pierre Raffarin's reform program could be a casualty of the ruling conservatives' loss Germany The Christian Democrats' big win bodes well for three state elections in September The ruling Social Democrats...
...loyalty to George W. Bush's Iraq policy has damaged his ability to push ahead on his European policies. Determined not to be labeled a sellout by British Euro-skeptics, he packaged his work in Brussels as a series of valiant sorties to preserve British sovereignty. Pro-E.U. pundits in France, Belgium, Spain and Italy assailed Blair for watering down the pact. "The greatest paradox of the European Union," said Le Figaro, "is that its most skeptical member calls the shots." French President Jacques Chirac helped Blair's reputation back home by denouncing his intransigence. "The ambitions...
...here and gone by Sunday, when the European Parliament results were due. British voters remain so deeply divided about what place they want for their country within the European Union that they were expected to hand more than 10% of the parliamentary vote to an anti-E.U. splinter group called the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP). And the UKIP was likely to pull votes from the famously (but more moderately) Euro-skeptical Tories - who stood to lose as many as a third of their M.E.P. seats, bringing Howard's celebration to a quick end. UKIP's brand of fire-breathing...
...consensus is based on the premise of a genuine and immediate restoration of Iraqi sovereignty. To get there, the Bush administration had to let go of the idea of Iraq as a kind of laboratory in which the occupation authority could slowly nurture a democratic, market-oriented, pro-U.S. and Israel-friendly system of government that would serve as a model for remaking the entire region. Instead, full sovereignty is being handed to an interim structure whose primary mandate is to hold elections within six months - the new Iraq that emerges from the current process will be more like...