NOT IN LINE: Chirac, Schröder and Blair, in Berlin, couldn't agree on a timetable for Iraq
Patrie. Homeland. Vaterland. Fosterlandet. It's a powerful and often vexing concept in any language, let alone in the 11 now spoken in the European Union or the 20-plus that will be spoken here after the E.U. expands next May. Even so, true believers have long dreamed that all of Europe would one day become a single homeland. That sweet dream took some more hard knocks last week.
First the Swedes a reasonable people famously in favor of solidarity resoundingly rejected the euro, which many see as the political and economic linchpin of a European homeland....
