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Now added to this list is Federico Fellini's "And the Ship Sails On", a dreamy, allegorical film set in the tension-filled days of August 1914, when the European continent girded for its first encounter with modern warfare. The film, Fellini's fifteenth, is an adult fairy tale gone...
As the Continent's recession has dragged on, many West Europeans have begun looking for scapegoats and have found them among their minorities. Suddenly the Turks, Pakistanis and Algerians are no longer individuals: they are Kana-ken, nig-nogs and bougnouls. Occasionally the prejudice goes from verbal violence to...
Even in the good years, Western Europe exploited and ignored its minorities, but the long-running recession seems to have stirred a particularly malignant demon in the Continent's psyche. In France last month, a dispute over extensive layoffs at a Peugeot factory outside Paris degenerated into three days...
The curtain, of course, is by no means solely British. Customs officials around the Continent routinely single out dark-skinned travelers for special scrutiny. Taxi drivers in the Dutch city of Nijmegen refused to accept black customers after one Surinamese failed to pay his fare. Brussels abounds with signs that...
Mass migration is nothing new in European history. The Continent's religious, dynastic and economic upheavals have uprooted people for centuries: Eastern Jews to the West, French Huguenots to Germany, and, most recently, Spaniards, Portuguese and Italians to the factories of the north. Every wave of émigré...