Blair gives up on his EU dream
By Melissa Kite, Toby Harnden and Tony Paterson
(Filed: 05/06/2005)
Tony Blair has given up on Europe as an issue worth fighting for, senior allies of the Prime Minister have told The Sunday Telegraph.
A leading Blairite cabinet minister made the admission last night as the European Union descended into deeper turmoil, with doubts surfacing over the future of the single currency.
Mr Blair, who will seek to shift the focus of his administration on to poverty in the Third World this week during talks with President Bush, has told his closest allies: "Africa is worth fighting for. Europe, in its present form, is not."
Woo Hoo
as the African economies are poised to really get off the ground finally, the death rattle of the EU as we know it has redirected Tony Blair to the needs of the people suffering inhuman societies in Africa
thank you France
thank you netherlands
Yet the crisis widened beyond the document alone,
with a media offensive being mounted to bolster the euro after German
officials and an Italian minister openly discussed its possible demise.
In the first rumblings of a call for the franc to be reinstated,
Nicolas Dupont-Aignant, a member of Mr Chirac's ruling UMP party, said:
"France, Italy and Germany would be in a better state without the euro.
However, I don't believe we should ditch it now.
Ok... wait wait back it up
things are bad in all three of those countries
it would be better if we didn't have the Euro
but lets keep it anyway
and... ;-) they wonder whyt hey lost
The governor of France's central bank, however, rushed to the euro's defence. Christian Noyer said that the currency was "in no way under threat" following its fall in value since the No votes of the past seven days. He dismissed as "absurd" the idea of a temporary withdrawal from the euro by individual states.
"The euro is a solid currency which brings us a lasting guarantee of stable prices and thus the maintenance of purchasing power for our wages and savings," he told Le Parisien newspaper.
if he triple guarentee's us it is solid then we know where Baghdad Bob has gone
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