A challenge in the streets: popular anger is rising over the plan for Euopean unity
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The European Union will meet in Jun 1997, to finalize plans for a single currency and discuss expansion into Eastern Europe. However, in areas such as the Rhine Valley, which spans both Germany and France, opposition to the European Union is growing, both from the left and the right.
Publication Name: Maclean's
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0024-9262
Year: 1997
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Eurobashing: British anger grows with closer European ties
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Opposition to increased links with the European Union (EU) has become a major political issue in UK. Anti-EU sentiment is running so strong in John Major's ruling Conservative Party that the Major government may itself collapse. Some opposition to the EU is also evident in France.
Publication Name: Maclean's
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0024-9262
Year: 1995
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The welfare war
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Thousands of French citizens participated in massive rallies during Dec 1995, to protest proposed cuts in the country's welfare system. Prime Minister Alain Juppe's plan to reduce France's $86-billion budget deficit cuts funding for health care, pensions and transportation.
Publication Name: Maclean's
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0024-9262
Year: 1995
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