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Within the past few weeks, reports of abuse have been proliferating across Europe - in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria and Poland, the home of Benedict's beloved predecessor. To Gibson, it is especially damaging to the Vatican that allegations are "coming out now in Bavaria and Austria, in the bastion of Old World Catholicism." (See pictures of spiritual healing around the world...
...Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor of Austria (2000-07) and President of the European Council (1998 and 2006) Kishore Mahbubani's analysis of "Europe's Errors" actually contains a declaration of love for Europe: "It can provide an alternative pole of growth, a model for abolishing wars between neighbors, cultural education and a moral voice." (See pictures of immigration in Europe...
...saving every child in Haiti in an essay intended to be humorous ("You could save every child in Haiti, and you would still have to feed the parking meter") shows an incredible lack of good judgment and taste. I won't read him again. Carolyn Sonneborn Mayr, LINZ, AUSTRIA...
...member states - Austria, Hungary, France, Greece, Germany and Luxembourg - ban the cultivation of GM maize on their territories. The bans were declared illegal in a World Trade Organization panel ruling in 2006, following a case brought by the U.S., Canada and Argentina. The WTO said the national safeguards were not based, as required, on scientific assessment of the risks. In the face of fierce member-state opposition, though, the E.U. has yet to fully implement the WTO's ruling. (See pictures of immigration in Europe...
Right or not, France’s actions against veils have set the tone for the rest of Europe. Now, Austria, Denmark, and the Netherlands are also considering banning the veil. But this is not the solution to acrimony between religions, or the problems of integrating immigrant Muslims into European cultures. Rather, European countries must expand their conceptions of liberalism to include aspects of Muslim culture—and that includes the veil...