For many ordinary Europeans, 'Brussels,' the city that houses the European Union's headquarters, has become a kind of shorthand for the imperious ways of an overweening bureaucracy that seems increasingly unresponsive to their concerns. So when ordinary Europeans in France and the Netherlands got a chance last week to express their feelings on the latest diktat from Brussels - the new 'Constitution for Europe,' a 200-page, 448-article document of turgid prose and numbing detail - they trashed it. Enthusiastically and emphatically.
6/4/05
KRT Wire: French and Dutch like what union stands for, but not bureaucracy
KRT WireFrench and Dutch like what union stands for, but not bureaucracy
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