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...propose that there be no campaigning until May 2008. The parties should hold their primary elections in June and their conventions in August and September, leaving September and October to finish campaigning and debating. Ah, yes, and let's cap campaign spending. Stephen C. Schulte Hermée, Belgium...
...scarf, a niqab or a full-body burqa - have been caught in a storm of debate in Europe. As a British citizen, Awan still has the right to wear whatever she wants. Several German states, by contrast, prohibit Muslim teachers from wearing head scarves in class. In parts of Belgium, civil servants are banned from wearing head scarves at work, and the Dutch government plans to make it illegal to wear the niqab or the burqa anywhere in public. (The estimated number of women in the Netherlands who wear either runs in the dozens...
...their census and those that do are often behind the curve. Britain introduced a mixed-race category to its census in 2001, only to discover that it was already the country's fastest-growing ethnic minority group. It's illegal to collect data on ethnicity or religion in France, Belgium, Denmark, Italy and Spain, mainly on the grounds that identifying people by their race or faith is, in itself, a form of discrimination. But a move to make all people equal risks ignoring their inherent differences. For instance, studies show that ethnic minorities tend to suffer higher rates of diabetes...
...very powerful way to have children value their own cultures, rather than just being confronted with complete novelty," says Schleicher. The effects are subtle but promising. While unemployment among foreign-born citizens in Sweden is still high (around 10%), it's lower than in Germany, France or Belgium. And the proportion of immigrants enrolled in Swedish universities is higher than it was five years...
...anti-immigrant movements are flourishing in places like Belgium, Britain, Germany and Italy. Last month, a group of ultranationalist M.E.P.s finally gathered enough members to create a formal caucus, giving them more political clout and making them eligible for E.U. funding. So immigration poses a two-part challenge for Europe: how to bring in the people it needs and how to do so without feeding the hysteria...