Euro-federalists and Eurosceptics alike feel vindicated: monetary union cannot work without economic and political unity.

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He will stress the "importance of maintaining the unity of Iraq, " say that "separate efforts undercut the unity of the country" and that "the Kurdish republic cannot survive financially without the support of Baghdad, " the official said.

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This strategy of accommodation without unity of purpose is what Italians call trasformismo, an ethos that was still alive and well in 1983, when the Socialist leader Bettino Craxi was invited to become Prime Minister, despite the fact that his party was only a minor partner in the mainly Christian Democrat coalition.

NEWYORKER: Booted

This cementing of Malay unity, together with the balanced poll results, enabled the assembly to end without rancor and left delegates looking buoyantly to the future.

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