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June 20, 2005
Der Spiegel: The EU's Fight Over Money Isn't So Bad
Der Spiegel Online correspondents Hans-Jürgen Schlamp and Frank Dohmen say it would "be easy to exaggerate" the situation in the European Union although it "is in a rut and it's not clear how it will get out."
"The fight over money isn't so bad that it will be impossible to resolve," they wrote on in a June 20, 2005 article headlined "EU Summit Collapse is 'Historic Failure.' They were referring to last week's EU meeting in Brussels that collapsed on June 17, 2005 because of France and Britain's "complete unwillingness to compromise on the European Union's next budget."
"There's still plenty of time to draw up a financial plan for the EU'S 2007-2013 budget period," they opined, adding: "Indeed, in the almost 50-year history of the European community, important decisions have almost always been made at the last minute."
They said, "What is terrible, however, is the effect the fruitless summit is having in the media, which has deeply damaged Brussels's already disastrous image among the European populace. Planners intended for the summer summit in Brussels to mark a turn for the better - unfortunately, they instead got an historical failure," they acknowledged.
Posted by Munir Umrani at June 20, 2005 01:19 PM
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