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That right has proved unpalatable to Mugabe. In 2000, the Zimbabwean President was shocked when changes to the constitution he wanted were rejected in a national referendum. During parliamentary elections a few months later and the presidential campaign in 2002, ZANU-PF used police and trained thugs to attack the...
Certainly, there's a lot to lose. The E.U. is the largest world market for clothing and textiles. But it's also a huge exporter: its 170,000 textile and clothing firms have annual revenues of more than ?200 billion and employ 2.6 million people. In France, Italy, Spain and...
The lustrations currently sweeping Central and Eastern Europe first broke out in Slovakia, where late last year the government-sponsored Institute of National Memory (UPN) began publishing the names of some 10,000 alleged collaborators from the files of the former secret police, the StB. The final batch of names...
INDICATORS Broken Trust The European Commission rejected Microsoft's proposals to curb the power of a monitor charged with policing its compliance with antitrust sanctions imposed one year ago. The firm has until April 11 to respond.
Britain is no longer a relatively poor member state, as it was then, but one of the richest. Britain is set to take over the rotating six-month E.U. presidency in July, so optimists are hoping that current president, Luxembourg, can craft a workable compromise before then. Don't hold...