"Marketing the EU
Published: June 6 2005 03:00 | Last updated: June 6 2005 03:00
In last week's cataclysmic plebiscites many French and Dutch said no to questions they were not actually asked. Prominent among them was the question of European Union enlargement. The phenomenal expansion of Europe has unnerved some of its citizens, especially among the founder members.
Fears for jobs at a time of sluggish to stagnant economic performance, fear of loss of control and identity in an enlarged and cacophonous Union, and fear of the 'other' in the case of populous and Muslim Turkey all coagulated in sullen rejection. "
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