[jjr69] pls explain
- From: Dat Duthinh <dduthinh@xxxxxxxx>
- To: jjr69@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:46:10 -0500
Could someone from the EU explain this part of an op-ed article from the=
NYT?
"In a stunning power play in Brussels, Germany and France moved to change=20
the practice of having a rotating presidency of the European Council, which=
=20
now gives smaller nations influence, to a system with a long-term=20
president. This Franco-German czar of the European Union would dominate a=20
toothless president of the European Commission, chosen by the European=20
Parliament.
Little guys of Europe hollered bloody murder this week, but will find it=20
hard to resist the Franco-German steamroller. France then had to repay=20
Schr=F6der by double-crossing the U.S. at the U.N. That explains France's=20
startling threat to veto a new U.N. resolution O.K.'ing the invasion of=20
Iraq =97 a second resolution that France had promised Colin Powell would not=
=20
be needed."=20
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