Word: skeptics
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...NILS LUNDGREN, Euro-skeptic Swedish M.E.P...
...want for their country within the European Union that they were expected to hand more than 10% of the parliamentary vote to an anti-E.U. splinter group called the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP). And the UKIP was likely to pull votes from the famously (but more moderately) Euro-skeptical Tories - who stood to lose as many as a third of their M.E.P. seats, bringing Howard's celebration to a quick end. UKIP's brand of fire-breathing Euro- hatred - they want Britain out of the E.U., period - was projected to show up in results from other countries too, including...
...POLAND President Aleksander Kwasniewski nominated the leftist former Finance Minister Marek Belka as Prime Minister, again. Belka has two weeks to rally support ahead of a vote of confidence in parliament, which bounced his first nomination in May. A second rejection would trigger a general election in August; Euro-skeptic parties currently lead in opinion polls. Courting the E.U. TURKEY The appeals court in Ankara freed four former Kurdish M.P.s, jailed for 15 years in 1994 on charges of collaborating with separatist rebels. Among the four - who face retrial in July - was Leyla Zana, winner of the European Parliament...
...fundamental European question, and that is always dangerous." But Blair hopes it will at least get him through the night. The public's trust in him has taken a beating from the Iraq war and an occupation that is getting more dangerous every day. Howard, backed by several Euro-skeptic newspapers, had been scoring points off Blair for arrogance and untrustworthiness in blocking the referendum, a theme that would have dominated local and European elections in June and provided a big stick for pummeling Labour in the general election expected a year from now. "Blair is bowing to political reality...
...believe Signora Frola, because she was the first to speak, and because she clucks with such matronly concern over her daughter and her son-in-law, and because Joan Plowright invests her with such easy dignity. In fact, there are no facts, just testimony. As Laudisi, the one skeptic ion the crowd, says, "Oh please! What can you learn from facts? ... What on earth can we ever know about anyone else? Do you think we know, really know, who other people are, or what they are, or what they...