Word: skeptics
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...only directly elected body, but was hardly welcomed by those who want to keep power in national capitals. "It's wrong that the Parliament should put itself in a position of being more important than the member states," says Jonathan Evans, head of the Euro-skeptic British Conservative M.E.P.s. Evans volunteered that it had been "tempting" to oppose the Commission for the sheer partisan joy of voting against British nominee Peter Mandelson, one of the architects of New Labour's victories, who is slated to become the Commissioner for Trade. Yet on this issue at least, Evans and Mandelson found...
...skeptic in me still thinks that youth turnout won’t be spectacular in November, despite P. Diddy’s celebrity-studded jet tour. But it will be better than before. And all it took was four years of a radical right-winger in the White House...
...Brussels labyrinth, Mandelson should be good at pushing Blair's brand of reform - less regulation and more transparency. But Blair's biggest European problem is at home: the referendum he has promised on the E.U. constitution, likely to be held no sooner than 2006. Britain's highly Euro-skeptic voters will make this a seriously uphill fight, and one of Mandelson's key jobs will be to help lead it. Opponents of the constitution say: Bring him on. "Who better to put the case for the European constitution than a discredited politician whose name is a byword for lies...
...first European Parliament elections since E.U. expansion, citizens yawned at the grand experiment: 45.5% - an all-time low - took part. Turnout was worst in the new E.U. states; 21% of Poles and 17% of Slovaks cast ballots. Voters punished ruling parties and boosted Euro-skeptics across the E.U. Austria Voters said Ja to reform in the European Parliament, giving two seats to a list led by whistle-blower Hans-Peter Martin The far-right Freedom Party lost four of its five seats, sparking an emergency change in leadership Belgium Popular with Flemish voters but vilified by the mainstream parties...
...system of "qualified majority voting" on issues like the environment, transportation and agriculture: if 55% of members, making up at least 15 states and representing 65% of the E.U. population, agree, the measure passes. But those moves toward a closer and more powerful union had Euro-skeptics howling - not just in Britain, the ancestral home of the skeptics, but also in places like Denmark and Poland, where some are suspicious that an E.U. speaking with a single voice will drown theirs out. Does this constitution, as the Euro-skeptics claim, push the E.U. far down the path to a single...