Word: benelux
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...some time. In recent years Europeans have become increasingly jumpy about bad food--and with good reason. Since the outbreak of mad-cow disease in 1996, the appearance of dioxin-contaminated Belgian chickens last spring and the later recall of contaminated cans of Coca-Cola in France and the Benelux nations, health officials have grown fussier about what their citizens consume--raising the doubts about GM food even higher...
...strong European Union and not left to throw its weight around between East and West. Chirac demonstrated his commitment to monetary union, if not his political smarts, when he called the snap election in hopes of securing control of his parliament for the next five years. The Benelux countries are on board the money plan, and Ireland, Spain and Finland are eager. In an interview last week Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi told TIME, "The euro must happen on time," that is, on Jan. 1, 1999. And, he predicted, "Italy will be in the EMU," or the Economic and Monetary...
...this summer Coke arranged to buy out its British partner, Cadbury Schweppes; the two were the beverage version of Charles and Di. Coke's new partner is Coca-Cola Enterprises, the world's biggest bottler--44% owned by Coke. In this same manner Coke has reclaimed operations in the Benelux countries and France and set up "anchor bottlers" such as Coca-Cola Amatil in Vienna, which handles Central Europe. Pepsi General Bottlers of Chicago supply Poland as well as Pennsylvania...
...they will find enough satisfaction in building to give up fighting. Which explains all the clauses devoted to transportation links and development banks, canal digging and grid linking -- mundane schemes of all kinds between Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territory that conjure up a vision of nothing less than Benelux- on-the-Jordan...
...Benelux, that picture-postcard association of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, sets the world standard for cooperative neighborliness. Unfortunately, however, the Arab Middle East does not look very much like Benelux. Eighteen states, and not a single functioning democracy. Among them, such spectacular failures in ordinary civil decency, let alone "great tolerance" and "real freedom," as Lebanon and Iraq...