Habsburg legacy haunts EU
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THE spirit of the Habsburg Empire will hover over central Europe as Hungarians vote tomorrow on a proposal to offer citizenship to three million of their ethnic brethren across the borders.
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European Union leaders already bicker about the future. At a summit meeting opening Thursday, even the past is bound to cause discord.Comment
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So often the poor relation of the EU family, the European Parliament has proved unusually resolute in taking on the might of Europe&#39;s governments in threatening to veto the bloc&#39;s new executive arm.
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While Bulgaria and Romania were celebrating the European Union's decision to grant them membership next year, other EU hopefuls, including Croatia and Turkey, look likely to suffer from the bloc's growing enlargement fatigue, analysts said.
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Brussels has offered no objection, but the issue has bitterly divided Hungarians and drawn angry reactions from neighbouring countries that view the proposal as provocative and intrusive.
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Even if the pontiff sidesteps volatile Christianity-Islam controversies, Turks were angered by his skepticism over their place in the European Union
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European Union leaders already bicker about the future. At a summit meeting opening Thursday, even the past is bound to cause discord.
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Europe&#39;s integration project is historically unprecedented. For the past millennium, Europe has lived in an uneasy equilibrium, giving birth to every great empire that dominated and pacified the world in the last 500 years.
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After Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic and Austria, now the Netherlands has woken up to an election result that has yielded no clear winner and promises a prolonged period of political drift and uncertainty.Comment
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Sixty years after the historic Yalta conference, its repercussions can still be felt throughout Europe.
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Europe is rapidly becoming a dirty word in French politics as fears grow that France&#39;s influence in the European Union is waning.
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It was all supposed to be so much simpler. After the nation entered the EU in May, Europeans hoped they would no longer face a jungle of bureaucratic obstacles to living and working in this country.
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Â· Some states 'in denial' over constitution  Â· Barroso rejects Ã  la carte Europe of exemptions
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Austriaâs conservative government said yesterday that it wanted a decision from the European Union summit on December 17, to remain open to offering Turkey less than full membership, a prospect dismissed by Turkey.
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BRUSSELS The dispute that engulfed Rocco Buttiglione and the 732-member European Parliament last week was partly about a prospective member of Europe&#39;s executive body professing unacceptable views and the legislature rising up to censure him.
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It has been a long slog between the dissolution of Yugoslavia and Slovenias membership in the EU, though, on a historical scale, not too bad.
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The European Union is in danger of extending beyond its proper geographical and cultural limits. Frankly, this title is misleading.