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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7982

13 June 2001
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / Short account of debate over future of europe - perplexity over irish post-referendum strategy - hop

Subterfuges lacking glory. It was expected: the path chosen by the princes that govern us to tackle the disturbances provoked by the "no" from the Irish people to the Treaty of Nice lacks political courage and imagination. It consists of saying: lets do nothing and wait for Ireland to find a legal solution that would allow for the ratification of the Treaty. These subterfuges are in no way glorious and obviously leave themselves open to mockery from the Eurosceptics. Everywhere, they...

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