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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10379

17 May 2011
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
Update on a few misunderstood or badly interpreted European dossiers

Taste for concocting Europe's “failures”. Last Saturday, a French newspaper's editorial focused on the “sad situation” besetting Europe. It mentioned a number of failures of the previous week, such as the disagreements between member states on changes to the Schengen area, nuclear plant stress tests and the positions of the EU with regard to Syria and Libya. It appears obvious to me that these three assumed failures are in fact some of the normal difficulties involving implementation...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT