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...higher education, increased their role in the workforce and started having babies later, that figure has fallen to 1.5 last year. In the newer member states of Central and Eastern Europe, the drop-off has been even deeper. That means that the population of the E.U. - plus candidate countries Bulgaria and Romania, expected to join by 2007 - could drop from 482 million today to 454 million by 2050. In the same period, the E.U.'s working age population is projected to drop by 18% while the number of those aged 65 or more will soar by 60%. Hospital maternity wards...
That this dream of Europe is different than its predecessors was signaled by the presence of leaders from Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria, all countries which have started EU accession negotiations. The three politicians also signed part of the document. “A united Europe is not only living up to its potential, it is also excluding war as a political means, since motives to conquer foreign territories will simply not exist in a united Europe,” said Croatian President Stipe Mesic the day after the event. Mesic, in Rome with observer status, hopes that his country will...
...legal reform, Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan was confident the negotiations, which could take up to 15 years, would conclude successfully. "We consider the European Union a community of values, not a Christian club," he said. The Commission also set a date of January 2007 for the accession of Bulgaria and Romania. Terror Alert FRANCE Indonesia put its diplomatic missions around the world on heightened security alert after a bomb exploded outside its embassy in Paris , injuring 10 people. The world's largest Muslim nation, Indonesia has suffered a number of recent attacks on its soil by Islamic militants linked...
Prior to their arrival in Greece, the crew spent ten days in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, training. The tiny town was turned upside down—or, more accurately, turned itself upside down—accommodating the team. In addition to providing a police motorcade that sped through red lights to and from the practice course, men with large guns were stationed every 100 meters or so along the course. The team stayed in a hotel rumored to be run by the mafia—a rumor made very believeable by the fact that in the window of every floor...
...Grasse was once famous for its fields of wildflowers, which used to be laboriously hand pressed to make perfumes. But most of the flowers are now grown in cheap-labor countries like Bulgaria and China. Grasse also imports hundreds of exotic ingredients, such as Indian sandalwood and Madagascar patchouli leaf. These days, however, synthetics often mimic traditional perfume ingredients like ambergris (a substance found in a sperm whale's intestines) and musk (taken from a gland near the foreskin of a Himalayan deer...