"Ethnic divisions threaten European unity
BY TOM HUNDLEY
Chicago Tribune
LONDON - In late May and early June, word on the street was 'non' and 'nee.'
Voters in France and the Netherlands seemed to speak for Europe's silent majority when they rejected a proposed European constitution.
The 'no' vote came from many quarters: social democrats who feared the new constitution would end Europe's well-endowed welfare state, Catholic nationalists angry that the document made no mention of God, and far-right-camp followers of Jean-Marie Le Pen and Geert Wilders who believed that a 'no' vote would keep Turkey out of the European Union and stanch the tide of Muslim immigration to Europe."
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