login
login

Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9453

24 June 2007
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
A compromise is a compromise - (Mediocre) results of European Council creates possibilities - Three urgent areas for Europe

Essential of reforms is safeguarded. There is nothing to be surprised about if the compromise on the new European treaty does not satisfy everyone. This is the very nature of the term “compromise”; everyone has to make concessions. Those who know the history of Europe, with its progress and stagnations, its life force and crises, are aware that a good approach does not consist in weighting up what has been won with what has been lost but rather, to see whether the overall result...