The European Union can emerge from its current crisis only by embracing new members like Turkey and Croatia and by modernizing its economies to confront globalization and the rising competitive challenge of China and India, Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain said today.
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"We have to renew," Mr. Blair said. "In every crisis there is an opportunity. There is one here now if we have the courage to take it."
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The result, Mr. Blair said, was rising extremism in Europe: "It is happening in Europe now."
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