Europe: EU’s global ambitions face more local tests

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Series Details 27.1.10
Publication Date 27/01/2010
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From roughly 1995 to 2005, the European Union looked like a rising power and an idea whose time had come. It was doubling in size from 12 nations to more than two dozen. It was launching the euro, a currency for a united continent.

Today the outlook for the EU is more uncertain. Its destiny appears to be that of a strictly regional power rather than a global giant.

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