The ‘No’ campaign seems once more to have regained the lead in the run-up to France’s referendum on May 29, with French voters apparently ignoring all warnings about the damage that would be caused by rejection of Europe’s constitutional treaty.
One explanation for this may be the fact that leading politicians of the left - [...]

As opinion polls produce results wobbling uncomfortably back-and-forth between ‘yes’ and a ‘no’, France is in the grips of a chaotic day of ’solidarity under duress’ whose consequences for 29 May seem hard to foresee.
News that parliaments in Germany, Austria and Slovakia have approved the constitution treaty is tempered by the results of the latest [...]

The Financial Times quotes former EU Commission President Romano Prodi on the consequences of a French rejection of the constitutional treaty.
?There would be no more Europe. We will pass through a long period of crisis.
?The problem will not only be a catastrophe for France, but the fall of Europe.?
This is arrant nonsense.
Nor is it [...]

My Bulgarian ‘assistant’ still won’t let me forget Chirac’s last faux pas: that the biggest favour the candidate countries could do for themselves was to stay quiet. It looks like we’re going down the same road one more time. I really don’t think it is possible to effectively ‘buy’ opinions. I mean in the [...]