June 2, 2005
NOT DEAD YET:
Debate must continue, European leaders say (Graham Bowley, JUNE 2, 2005, International Herald Tribune)
The ratification of the European Union constitutional treaty must go on, Europe's leaders declared on Wednesday even after the Netherlands followed France and overwhelmingly rejected the treaty in a national referendum.
Seeking to play down the sense of crisis, the European Union refused to pronounce the constitution dead.
"The debate must continue," said Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg and the current holder of the rotating EU presidency.
And so the EU enters its L. Ron Hubbard phase... Posted by Orrin Judd at June 2, 2005 7:49 AM
Comments
Visions of "The weekend at Bernie's" with the EU playing the role of the dead Bernie come to mind.
Posted by: AWW at June 2, 2005 7:58 AMThey must use more nuance.
Posted by: Genecis at June 2, 2005 9:01 AMA friend from Texas once told me, "We rarely get good politics but we always get good entertainment." Or as Homer Simpson said while watching one of those gory "Highway of Death" instruction movies "I think this is funny because I don't know any of those people."
Posted by: Luciferous at June 2, 2005 11:29 AMAWW nailed it with the perfect metaphor. Beautiful!
Posted by: Tom at June 3, 2005 9:26 PM