The EU is struggling to produce a unified response to both the fact and the scale of the Dutch rejection of the treaty, which has produced a crisis that is unprecedented and to which there is no obvious problem-solving Plan B.
Reports have already emerged that Berlin is once again looking at the idea of a core Europe.
According to Press Association (PA), the British news agency, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder called his Dutch counterpart on Wednesday evening to offer The Hague a chan...
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