24 February 2003 France launches a blistering assault on 13 applicants for EU membership, calling them “infantile” for following the U.S. rather than French line on Iraq.PRAGUE, Czech Republic–Furious at a lack of support for the French line on Iraq, French President Jacques Chirac has issued a thinly veiled threat to veto the entry of Central and East European candidates […]

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