- Euro zone: A dither closer for Great Britain?
Great Britain's dithering over whether to join the single European currency continues, but there are signs that the British public might get to vote on the matter before long. In a speech to his party conference on Oct. 2, Prime Minister Tony Blair said a vote should take place once ......
- BLAIR DODGES BULLETS
The May re-election of Tony Blair with a comfortable majority in the U.K. parliament solves one foreign policy problem for him, but opens up another. Although Blair's Labour Party tried to avoid discussion of the Iraq war, the issue was forced to the center of the campaign by an opposing ......
- The United Kingdom and the Euro:.
Will It Ultimately Accede to a Single Currency That Will Launch a Challenge to the Dollar's World Dominance? As I sit writing this article, I ponder upon the fact that it is exactly one week since the UK General Election, an election which saw a second landslide victory for Tony ......
- The United Kingdom and the euro: Will it ultimately accede to a single currency that will launch a challenge to the dollar's world dominance?
HEADNOTE International Affairs Section HEADNOTE Will It Ultimately Accede to a Single-- Currency That Will Launch a Challenge to the Dollar's World Dominance? IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 3 As I sit writing this article, I ponder upon the fact that it is exactly one week since the UK General Election, an election ......
- Another Vote.
Electoral Reform in Italy On the morning of April 19, 1999, the early editions of many Italian national newspapers ran headlines declaring the passage of a referendum on electoral reform that was intended to create a more unified and workable government. The referendum would have changed Italy's partially proportional-representation system, ......
- Europe: British pound hits 15-year low
With the probability of the United Kingdom joining the European Monetary Union rising, the British pound is falling faster than the euro. The pound dropped to a 15-year low of $1.38 in early June, just as Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party won a comfortable victory in the general election....
- Tycoon's revenge
HEADNOTE Despite conflicts of interest and corruption charges, Silvio Berlusconi seems likely to become Prime Minister of Italy again. Since he last held that post the economy has improved so much that Rome is now at home in the Eurozone. But equally important, wholesale political reform has fallen victim to ......