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May 30, 2005

The European Union

Barroso Changing His Position?

by Edward Hugh

This piece in the FT seems to suggest that Barroso may in fact be moving away from the ‘bsuiness as usual’ line:

The European Union was on Monday braced for a wave of possible No votes against the EU constitution, after French voters decisively rejected it.Officially EU leaders stuck to the line that all member states should ratify the treaty as normal, but privately there are growing doubts about whether that is possible.

José Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, admitted there was “a risk of contagion” with hostility to the treaty spreading to other countries. ….

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One Response
  1. Elaib Says:
    May 30th, 2005 at 10:38 pm

    A risk of contagion. My dear the whole limb is gangrenous, and has been for a while, where has the good Dr been?

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