What France Must do to Repair the No Vote's Damage  

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Lenoir, Noelle

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Europe's World: The Only Europe-Wide Policy Journal no. 5 (2007), page 38.
Topik: European Defence Community (EDC); No vote; France; democracy; European
Fulltext: What France must do to repair the No vote’s damage (win).pdf (98.66KB)

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The fall-out from French voter's rejection of the EU constitution continues to be very damaging, says Noelle Lenoir, France's former Minister of European Affairs. But she believes that her country can yet play a key part in getting the European project back on its feet and moving forward again. From the outside, it must look as if the French, once passionate believers in European integration, are going through a peroid of doubt over their country's role as a pillar of Europe. What is this and where is it taking us? Not long ago, an American political analyst Steven Philip Kramer wrote in "Foreign Affairs" that France's loss of influence in Europe after the mid-2005 referendum on the EU constitution is such that the French "No" vote compares with the unexpected surrender of the French in 1940. It is a provocative analogy, but how appropriate is it? The collapse of 1940 revealed the fragility of France's democracy and a loss of confidence in its capacity to face outside threats. Today, in its surprise rejection of the European constitution, France is expressing its fear of, among other thins, globalisation.

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