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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10044

19 December 2009
S N I P P E T S / @@@ her name was europe

Greece still says it will veto Macedonia's EU accession talks until the problem with the country's name has been sorted out to Greece's approval. Maybe we should remind people that according to some historians, shortly before his death in 336 B.C., Philip the Second of Macedonia had a daughter called Europe, who died in infancy. Should we also fear an untimely death for the European ideal in the Balkans because of squabbling over a name? What would become of the EU if the rest of Europe were...

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