In this climate, Dutch Prime Minister Peter Balkenende, still bogged down in his country’s “no” vote on the EU’s draft constitutional treaty in 2005, has been seeking to win British, Czech, and Polish support for measures to make it possible to diminish the EU’s areas of responsibility.
Jediným, kdo snad takovým odklonem od evropského společenství hodnot může být potěšen, je ruský prezident Vladimír Putin.