A good crisis for the EU / International Herald Tribune, 14 Jun 2005

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/13/opinion/edpfaff.php
"While it will be months before the results are fully known, the train wreck of the European constitutional treaty may have been a very good thing for the European Union.

It has saved it from an open-ended commitment to expansion that could have been fatal to the EU's own political coherence and to any European expectation of playing a vigorous and independent future role in international relations.
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