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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8978

28 June 2005
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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Tony Blair can at least take the credit for launching the debate on the future of Europe, which has been called for in vain for so many years

Successful charm offensive. The debate on the nature and the future of Europe has started, because, as everybody agrees, Tony Blair's speech before the European Parliament was not the "programme-speech" of a half-yearly Presidency, but a manifesto for a certain view of the EU. And so were, in practice, Mr Blair recognised what Jean-Claude Juncker said when he announced the failure of the recent Summit, which is that this failure had not been caused by differences of opinion on the figures,...

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