Polls indicate Estonians will vote yes to EU accession tomorrow.
In Sweden, “polls give widely differing indications as to the likely outcome of the referendum.”
The Economist has a pretty decent primer on our referendum. (Via Crooked Timber)
International Herald Tribune reported yesterday enlargement seems to be bad news for African farmers::
For France the prospect of support from Poland and Hungary is a welcome development.
For years French politicians have feared that the enlargement of the European Union would mean a dilution of French power and influence in Europe. But on the question of farm policy, enlargement could provide much-needed moral and political support.
It is a different story for groups that support a radical overhaul of the E43 billion, or $48 billion, program, for whom enlargement is a worrying prospect.
“The opportunity for reform was this summer,” said Sam Barratt of Oxfam, an aid organization that has been very critical of Europe’s farm policies. “And given the obstinacy that the French had then, when the Hungarians and the Poles join it’s going to make any reform even harder.” The number of farmers in the Union will increase by 50 percent with the admission of 10 new countries into the Union in May.
Blogs:
The indispenable Cosmocrat finds increasingly strong signs that the EU Constitution will be fundamentally re-examined by the Inter-Governmental Conference.
Stefan Geens blogs about The Wall Street Journal’s comments on Anna Lindh. He was pleasantly surprised, then quite unpleasantly surprised.
Juan Cole on Al-Qaeda’s new geostrategic masterplan
Many thanks for the link. Be it noted that I’m also front.
When I was young, I did a mean handstand, but that would be dangerous now.
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Wow, Gary Farber finds his way to our little blog. That must mean we’ve hit the big time.
I hate to say this, but y’all posted the wrong url to gary’s blog, afaik: it’s supposed to be amygdalagf at blogspot, not amygdala…
Well, it seems now that the Nays have it… Pity, I would have loved to add a few Swedish coins to my Euro collection, but then, it’s the way they feel. How strange this will seem to accession countries, which have been told the Euro is part of the whole package, so take it or leave it. So Poland will probably get her Euro coins before Sweden even thinks again…