Word: unionizers
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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...
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...
...talks in Pretoria, South Africa, told Agence France-Presse that the government's proposal showed a "complete lack of sincerity and the need to really address the issues and problems Zimbabwe is facing." Zimbabwe already has two vice presidents, both high-ranking members of Mugabe's Zimbabwean African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) Party, and both are confined to largely ceremonial duties. "[The talks are] deadlocked, according to the MDC guys," said Chris Maroleng, Zimbabwe expert at the Institute of Strategic Studies in Pretoria. "The position they were offered is untenable for them...
...faith-based parties banned by the courts, only to reemerge in a new guise on the back of a solid base of popular support. Unlike its predecessors, the AKP has steered clear of inflammatory Islamist rhetoric, pursued aggressively liberal economic policies and advocated for Turkey's joining the European Union...