The resultant outcry forced conservative socialist forces to set up a committee of inquiry to acknowledge known facts, so that they can appear as 'innocent doves' in the eyes of the people, thereby creating a delusion as to the role of the ΕU.

This position adopted by the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats and the Socialist Group in the European Parliament (encompassing the Portuguese Social Democrats, Conservatives and Socialists) is especially significant given that it is these very political forces that are negotiating the wording of a ‘simplified’ Treaty, which they tell us is different in content from the ‘European Const ...[+++]itution’.

However, the success of the National Movement for Simeon II and the clear defeat of both the ruling Union of Democratic Forces and the oppositional Bulgarian Socialist Party could very well be interpreted, as several observers have done, as an expression of lack of trust in politicians and political parties.

Forced to defend itself on two fronts, Hitler's army surrendered less than one year later, shortly after our troops linked up with Soviet divisions.

Mr. Bill Blaikie (Winnipeg Transcona, NDP): Mr. Speaker, I met recently with representatives of the SDF of Cameroun, a sister party of the NDP in the Socialist International, and from them I learned that many abuses are currently taking place without an appropriate international response, considering that the democratic institutions now in operation in the Cameroun are a result of conditions set by the IMF. For example, only a small percentage of the eligible electorate is registered and in the last election there were blatant episodes of vote rigging, ballot tampering and th ...[+++]e overturning of results that were not favourable to the governing party.

It falls to the socialist movement to intensify its demand for ever stricter regulation, ever-more far-seeing control.