If Europe seeks a new political constitution, though, a dramatic lurch towards a rejectionist or extremist party on one country could lead to a break-up of the club.

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The police had been trying to break up fighting between rival fans from Lazio and Turin club Juventus.

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The 29-year also found himself in trouble for breaching disciplinary rules for club and country following the break-up of his marriage.

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How much Chicago has changed in the past 20 years was shown by what happened or did not happen after the disaster in a city-centre nightclub on February 17th, when 21 young people, all of them black, died in a stampede after the club's bouncers used pepper-spray to break up a fight.

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