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...Euratex, which represents E.U. textile producers, because there's plenty of other merchandise made in the E.U. and elsewhere available. Lakin says that any fixes to the original deal should be minimal. Still, the prevailing wind has changed. Mandelson, now under pressure from more free trade-minded governments including Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, last week announced that there was "a serious glitch" in his June deal and dispatched a team of officials to Beijing to try to renegotiate part of it. Even if the Chinese agree to new terms and the impounded clothing is released, it's enough...
...Pearson—which delivered its report in 1969. The next year, the UN General Assembly adopted the 0.7 percent target as the international standard for foreign aid contribution. In the 35 years since, rich countries have repeatedly pledged to meet that target, but only a handful—Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands—have followed through...
...Home Companion and in his phenomenal best seller (1,064,000 copies) Lake Wobegon Days; and Ulla Skaerved, 42, Danish former exchange student in Keillor's Minnesota high school class of 1960, whom he met again at a 25th reunion last summer; both for the second time; in Holte, Denmark...
...each going through very different experiences. Sweden, for example, is struggling with wage and price increases that are 2% to 4% higher than those of its major competitors. This year wages may rise by close to 8%. Growth is expected to slow from 2.5% to 1% in 1986. In Denmark, by contrast, inflation and wage in creases are coming down to the rate of its partners in the European Community after years of rapid government spending. Denmark's major problem is a widening trade deficit, which is increasing the country's foreign debt. Norway has been enjoying growth rates...
Jean-Noël Jeanneney, president of the French national library, has since inspired 19 libraries to join the cause. The national libraries in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, and Sweden all signed and released an official oppositional statement soon after Google unveiled the project in December...