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Thursday October 03, 2002 04:35
by Phuq Hedd
Alndrew Cockburn on the Nice Treaty: Counterpunch.org
Andrew Cockburn argues that: Nice is essentially about a sinister overhaul of the system by which the people of the EU are governed. The most important provisions of the agreement changed the system for governing the Union, which currently gives small and big countries a roughly equal voice, to one in which the big countries -- particularly France, Germany, Italy and Britain -- have the decisive say