Name : Global Finance July August 2005   Title : For believers in the European project, the news just keeps getting worse. On May 13, French citizens   Type : PDF   Size : 3631 KB

Detail : For believers in the European project, the news just keeps getting worse. On May 13, French citizens delivered an astounding slap in the face to their political leaders, voting against a new constitution for Europe drawn up by a former French president. Just one week later, an even larger percentage of Dutch voters said no. That immediately plunged the European Union into turmoil.

Any hopes of salvaging something from the wreckage were dealt a brutal blow when a late-June summit of EU leaders ended in acrimony. Ostensibly, the argument was over French desire to revise a British budget rebate won by then-UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher back in 1984; in reality it reflected cataclysmic fault lines in how the various European countries saw the future of the Union.

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