It is, by now, a common lament of tourists visiting Ireland that the once quaint and impoverished island, isolated from many of the modern world's changes, is gone
French voters torpedoed the European Union constitution on Sunday 29 May. The Dutch look set to torpedo it again for good measure when they vote on Wednesday. The tortuously negotiated
Europes rulers and ruled have less in common on the European Union than on any other issue. Surveys show popular support for the Union at close to a twenty-year
