Security Council and the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, who pulled out his observers from Iraq.
5. ‘'We are building alliances with ___________________,'' said civil rights leader Jesse Jackson
who convened a strategy session in Chicago last week.
6. For each state to adopt the new currency on 1 January 2002, they had to meet the _________________________ set out by the Maastricht Treaty.
7. The external borrowing needs of a country depend in part on the size of the balance of
payments on current accounts and whether it is in ________________ o r_________________.
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8. How is Taiwan going to _________________________ between liberalisation and protection
for its people and markets?
9. All the variants of the worst scenario involve some combination of the collapse of Iraqi
institution and the __________________ of the country into sections that, at least in the
south and west, are ungoverned or without clear authorities.
10. Euro proponents seem to fear that the ___________________ of the eurozone is some kind
of Armageddon.
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11. The prohibition on providing technical and financial assistance related to military activities _______________________ of the Treaty.
12. Newcomers outside the euro zone, like Hungary or Latvia, have had to endure horrible ___________________ programmes in the last two years under IMF supervision, while countries inside the euro zone are to be spared IMF programmes.
13. Nicolas Sarkozy made no secret of wanting to increase the power of the heads of state and
government from the 16 euro zone countries, turning them into an ______________________
Europe (that just so happens to look rather like Europe before the big bang enlargement).
14. The concept of a ____________________ Europe is a controversial and highly sensitive
subject.
15. One of the most ambitious proposals that could be found in the drafts for the future of the EU
and the euro zone in particular was the creation of a _______________________, called in the
draft documents a ‘fiscal capacity' for absorbing shocks.
READING 2
PRE-READING QUESTIONS
1. Do you think the concept of a common European identity is a myth or reality?
2. What processes are, in your view, fostering / hindering the formation of a common identity?
Skim the article to find out if the author has similar views on the issue.
TOO EARLY TO SAY HOMO EUROPAEUS1 IS DOOMED
