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...billionaire rejected by the chorus girl. In public, 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...
...story. The E.U. is one of the great successes of the post-1945 world - a unique 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...
When the results came in, Mary Claire Connellan felt ill. The news that Ireland had voted no in a referendum on the European Union's Lisbon treaty on June 12 left her "shaky and sick." Exhaustion didn't help: in the run-up to the vote, the 25-year-old stagiaire - an E.U. intern - had flown back to her native Ireland to canvass for a yes. For Connellan, the promise of a Europe freed from the ways of the past has long been an ideal. "I've seen the damage nationalism can do," she says. "Coming from Ireland...
This summer in Brussels - the closest thing there is to a capital of the E.U. - there is an almost palpable sense that the dream of an ever closer union between Europe's nations is a thing of the past. Ordinary Europeans are making it plain they believe there are 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...
...portraying a hapless Tube driver who tries to exploit a (fictional) loophole in his contract that grants him early retirement if he witnesses three suicides from his train. The film misjudged the nation's mood and was savaged by film critics, mental-health workers and the train drivers' union, whose members picketed outside the premiere of the movie. Their placards declared that suicides on the Tube were no laughing matter...