On 25 March 2007, the European Union will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the treaty of Rome, the founding document of what became today's union of twenty-seven member-states.
When the French and the Dutch voted against the draft European Union constitution in May 2005, many thought this was an unprecedented crisis in Europe's history. One year
The rejection by French and Dutch voters of the treaty establishing a European constitution has precipitated one of the deepest crises in the European Unions fifty-year history. The results