WASHINGTON, June 16 (UPI) -- European leaders are plotting how to get around the rejection of the new European treaty in the Irish referendum. They have done it before and will do it again, but will weaken the EU's already fragile democratic legitimacy in the process.

NASHVILLE, April 1 (UPI) -- Truckers protesting fuel costs had sympathy, but no endorsement, from the National Association of Small Trucking Companies, the organization said.

LOS ANGELES, July 13 (UPI) -- A Los Angeles judge granted Larry Birkhead's request to freeze former attorney Debra Opri's client trust account while the court reviews disputed billing.

LONDON, May 24 (UPI) -- Britain can still take steps to improve the European Constitution to preserve its ability to object to future decisions, Lord David Owen says.

LONDON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The EU's former special negotiator on Yugoslavia Sunday said the war crimes tribunals involving Slobodan Milosevic and others are taking too long.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Ongoing conflicts between the United States and its European allies over American policies towards Iraq and other critical issues are symptoms of a fundamental ideological between the sides, experts said Friday at a think tank forum in Washington.

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