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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8972

19 June 2005
Contents Publication in full By article 1 / 11
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Those wanting a Europe without ambition and solidarity worked to ensure collapse of negotiations on the Financial Perspectives

Tony Blair's real aim. Once again, the pessimists were right. It is not so much the collapse of the negotiations over the Financial Perspectives in itself that is so serious, since such negotiations are tricky by their very nature and always take disagreeable turns (it is not the first time that an additional summit is required to strike agreement), but rather the fact that the crisis over the Constitution and the weakening of France in Europe have been seized upon to try and change Europe...