Word: denmark
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...against the will of most national governments, who are struggling with frail growth and mounting resentment of Europe. Oddly enough, the most successful countries in the “old” EU are those which do not belong to the Euro area: the United Kingdom, Sweden and Denmark. With huge costs and scarce benefits, the risk of a European disintegration has never been so high. In reality—and this was precisely the rationale of the monetary unification gamble—the Euro area is a single large economy, and, as such, needs proactive and cooperative macroeconomic policy...
...furor over the offensive cartoons originating from Denmark cannot be said to be unexpected. The caricatures are without a doubt condemnable and indeed tasteless, to say the least. For once, the West?especially Europe?is confronted with the need to re-examine its self-absorbed democratic culture, one that doesn't give a hoot about the sensibilities of others. Sunny Esho vInnsbruck, Austria...
...furor over the offensive cartoons originating from Denmark cannot be said to be unexpected. The caricatures are without a doubt condemnable and indeed tasteless, to say the least. For once, the West - especially Europe - is confronted with the need to re-examine its self-absorbed democratic culture, one that doesn't give a hoot about the sensibilities of others. Sunny Esho Innsbruck, Austria...
When it comes to problems with free speech about Islam, Denmark is something of a hotspot. Islamic radicals murdered Danish film director Theo Van Gogh in 2004 in response to his short film “Submission Part I,” which juxtaposed documentary footage of husbands beating their Islamic wives in the name of Allah and the same women praying, their bodies covered in verses from the Koran. In Islam, any visual portrayal of the prophet is blasphemous and last year, it seemed that the Dutch were too afraid of reprisals from Muslim fundamentalists for author...
Moreover, the protesters are attacking a fundamental value of the state itself. Denmark, as a liberal democracy, holds free speech as a basic value: violence and burning flags (which contained, let it be pointed out, a cross of the Christian faith) are not paths to peace, let alone assimilation. Burning the flag is not only offensive to Danes, it represents an outright rejection of integration by Islamic citizens and can bring nothing but further problems to Muslim relations there...