AUBERVILLIERS, France, Nov. 11 (UPI) — It still smells of smoke along the Rue Henri-Barbusse in the French suburb of Aubervilliers, but the skeletons of burned-out cars are cold now and look oddly like randomly parked pieces of modern sculpture in the shadow of the giant Quatre-Chemins housing estate that saw some of the worst […]
Le général Casey, le commandant des forces américaines en Irak, a annoncé que les Etats-Unis entendent commencer un retrait «réellement significatif» de leurs forces armées hors d’Irak juste après l’établissement d’un gouvernement constitutionnel par les élections prévues pour décembre….more
IS THERE A LIMIT TO EUROPEAN UNION ENLARGEMENT?
“Many of our European and regional partners recognize that they have as much at stake in Iraq as we do if not more. And their desire to prevent chaos is, in fact, a very, very strong incentive if we lead.”…more
The French and Dutch publics have resoundingly rejected a constitutional treaty of which too little was explained, too late and too poorly. To be sure, the death of the treaty, for that is what it is, does not translate into a death of the European Union. Admittedly, too, a French oui would not have ended […]