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...bells in Britain, Belgium and Spain, where leaders feared that Germany was trying to curry favor with Magna and that their countries would bear the brunt of any job losses. When the European Commission said last month that it would launch an inquiry into whether Germany had been in breach of E.U. competition rules, Berlin told Brussels that such state aid would be available to any investor - not just Magna. Theoretically, this means that GM can apply for some of the money to save its European businesses, although German politicians probably won't take too kindly to that...
...nationwide vote on an initiative is a petition of 100,000 signatures. "Right-wing initiatives like the minaret one can misuse the system," says Marcel Stüssi, a lecturer in human-rights law at the University of Lucerne. He says the ban, should it be approved, "would breach not only freedom of belief, expression and conscience," but also other equality and nondiscrimination laws...
...started when Medvedev surprised the nation by initiating a fresh debate over the state of democracy in Russia. In a breach of the usual Kremlin protocol, Medvedev wrote a policy paper - a liberal manifesto of sorts - that was published in September on the independent news website gazeta.ru. It was seen by many to be a groundbreaking document. Although Medvedev did not criticize Putin overtly - that would have been political suicide - he did lament Russia's isolationism, its vulnerable economy and its "negative democratic tendencies," all jabs at the authoritarian political system that Putin cultivated during his eight years as President...
...White Tiger.” Enthusiastic reception notwithstanding, however, the “local color” in which these books traffic reduces perceptions of the region to little more than cartoonish, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”-esque stereotypes.Harsh? Perhaps. Yet the breach between the possibilities for “diaspora” fiction and the lackluster reality is disappointingly vast. To pull a book from the shelf at random, take Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie’s 2002 “Salt and Saffron.” “The stories that [narrator...
...Farber development department has been working with me to see if there is anyone who will step into the breach...