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...Stalinist Europe, or entering World War II. The U.S. chose to come in because neither Nazism nor Stalinism was in the U.S.'s best interest. Europeans may be indebted to those G.I.s who fought here 60 years ago but certainly not to the Bush Administration. Pascal Duruisseau Nivelles, Belgium...
...stood to lose as many as a third of their M.E.P. seats, bringing Howard's celebration to a quick end. UKIP's brand of fire-breathing Euro- hatred - they want Britain out of the E.U., period - was projected to show up in results from other countries too, including Belgium, Sweden and Poland, where the Samoobrona Party, which wants to renegotiate Poland's terms of entry into the E.U., was expected to take as many as 13 seats. According to one poll conducted for the European Parliament, Euro-skeptic M.E.P.s will constitute about a tenth of its membership, and possibly hold...
...adoption. Civil Marriage In April 2001, the Netherlands became the first to offer full civil marriage rights to gay couples. It imposed a three-year moratorium on adoptions, but recently dropped it, along with a ban on foreign adoptions, according to gay-rights activist Henk Krol. In January 2003, Belgium adopted a similar model, but without the adoption rights...
...even remotely analogous to God's plan for marriage and the family. Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go against the natural moral law." Muslim authorities are as adamantly opposed to it, and in France the Protestant Church has expressed reservations. Still, last year, predominantly (though only nominally) Catholic Belgium went almost as far as its northern neighbor, passing a law that gives all rights but adoption to homosexual couples. This summer the Belgian federal Parliament is expected to vote on a proposal to allow same-sex couples to adopt and, according to Socialist M.P. Karine Lalieux, it is likely...
...justice and freedom. That's worth commemorating as the E.U., East and West, old and new, returns to the urgent business of grappling toward its new constitution. However messy that process gets, the East has its voice - and won't lose it again. - By James Graff Haunted House BELGIUM In a case that has transfixed the nation, the trial of admitted child rapist and alleged child murderer Marc Dutroux convened for a day at his house in Marcinelle, a suburb of Charleroi. His two surviving victims...