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mithridates
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 Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 5:00 pm Post subject: Drama at the European Union |
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This quote made me kind of sad -
"When I heard one after the other, all the new member countries each poorer than the other, say that in the interest of reaching an agreement they would be ready to renounce some of their financial demands, I was ashamed"
Jean-Claude Juncker,
Luxembourg Prime Minister"
He's the president of the union right now until Tony Blair takes over. |
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Gwangjuboy
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 8:27 pm Post subject: Re: Drama at the European Union |
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| mithridates wrote: |
This quote made me kind of sad -
"When I heard one after the other, all the new member countries each poorer than the other, say that in the interest of reaching an agreement they would be ready to renounce some of their financial demands, I was ashamed"
Jean-Claude Juncker,
Luxembourg Prime Minister"
He's the president of the union right now until Tony Blair takes over. |
The UK is already contributing more to the beloved EU than France. If the UK concedes it would be contributing 15 times more than France. Even with the rebate the UK is contributing double what France does. |
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Wangja
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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Amongst others, the Netherlands too is opposed. They (pop 15 m) pay more than the French (pop 60m).
Chirac has raised a smokescreen to blur the fact that his country rejected a French initiated and (largely) French drafted constitution. |
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mithridates
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Tony Blair then held a press conference where he stated that he would be more than willing to cooperate if some union were to give in to something, but that went completely over my head. What union is that? |
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Wangja
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| Tony Blair then held a press conference where he stated that he would be more than willing to cooperate if some union were to give in to something, but that went completely over my head. What union is that? |
I thinl he meant the EU (European Union). He simply wants to re-open tha budget structure, especially the CAP, which seems to keep French smallholders in clover. |
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mithridates
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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Oh yes, that union. Ha.
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Visibly furious at a late-night news conference, the UK prime minister went on the offensive, arguing that the rebate was not a selfish money grab but a correction necessary to balance the farm subsidies that flow far more generously to France and other continental countries than to Britain.
He said he would happily give up the cheque - worth about $5.5 billion a year - if the union cuts its agricultural payments, which he says reflect priorities that are out of sync with the modern world. |
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