But Bush's would be a looser environmental policy, on offshore drilling, say, than Gore's.
Widening (meaning enlargement) has often been advocated by those who feared deepening (meaning a move towards an ever closer federal union), in the belief that a larger union would also be a looser one.
Isis by contrast has already welcomed several would-be supporters under what seems to be a looser umbrella, among them Afghan fighters whom analysts say have significant theological differences with the group.
We should, on this view, give Kyoto a decent burial and switch to plan B. This turns out to be a looser arrangement in which governments make voluntary pledges to each other.
It is also because council taxes are likely to carry on rising faster than RPIX inflation; and because house prices should rise in the long term somewhat faster than inflation.What this means is that a 2% HICP inflation target would be a looser one than the 2.5% RPIX target.
With 15% of the total population, the Turks will hardly take over the Union themselves; but their membership will deny preponderance to others.So France's ex-president, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, is right to say that an EU including Turkey will be a looser grouping than some people desire.
