"It's never over, " said one veteran Democratic assemblyman, one of several men and women in the conference who would speak only on thecondition of anonymity because closed-door discussions aren't supposed to be revealed and because legislative leaders control resources and legislation and can end careers.
Both Bulgaria and Slovakia are threatening to reopen nuclear reactors closed as a condition of joining the EU. That has brought angry threats of legal action by the European Commission and Austria, a fierce critic of Slovakia's Jaslovske Bohunice nuclear-power plant.