EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION

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                    [Summary] => PARIS  –  Maybe it’s fortuitous but the French officials we met here (Paris) did not seem as bothered about the situation in the Philippines as we thought they would. They had their own problems to worry about because of the results of a referendum in which the French public voted down the European Constitution. It had seemed for a long time that France together with Germany, was the bedrock on which the EU was built. Just why should the French vote against the new Constitution? The French officials we talked to did not seem to have the answers, either.
                    [DatePublished] => 2005-06-19 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa
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                    [Summary] => Eurocrats probably thought this would be a breeze: write up a Constitution for the European Union, have this supported by all the major political parties and get it ratified in each of the individual member-countries.


This was, after all, a project that comes as a logical continuation of everything that has been accomplished in terms of European integration: the open borders; the common social policies; the establishment of a European Central Bank and, yes, the adoption of a single currency for nearly all the member countries (with the exception of Britain). 


                    [DatePublished] => 2005-06-07 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Alex Magno
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A fortuitous coincidence

By FROM A DISTANCE | By Carmen N. Pedrosa | June 19, 2005 - 12:00am

PARIS – Maybe it’s fortuitous but the French officials we met here (Paris) did not seem as bothered about the situation in the Philippines as we thought they would. They had their own problems to worry...

Opinion

Region-state

By FIRST PERSON | By Alex Magno | June 7, 2005 - 12:00am

Eurocrats probably thought this would be a breeze: write up a Constitution for the European Union, have this supported by all the major political parties and get it ratified in each of the individual member-countries. This...

Opinion