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...have risen sharply over the past 30 years and are now among the highest in the world. Adding together corporate, personal, social security and value-added tax (VAT), the highest-taxing countries in the world are in Western Europe: France, Belgium, Austria, Italy and the four Scandinavian countries - Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway. (Germany and Britain are further down the list, but still ahead of the U.S., Japan, Canada, Mexico and Australia.) This week, a French antitax group is taking out newspaper ads to celebrate "the day of tax liberation." Given the nation's tax burden, it calculates that...
...exhibit of next-generation design stars, Denmark's Anne Bannick and Lene Vad Jensen displayed cutlery made from corn. Another wild idea: Eric Bergman's sandals with seeds for soil-cleaning plants buried in the soles. Now that's back to nature...
...even Steven Spielberg could write a script like that." HENRIK LARSSON, Swedish footballer, dismissing claims by Italian fans that Sweden and Denmark colluded to shut Italy out of the Euro 2004 quarter-finals by ending their match in a 2-2 draw...
...Verhofstadt's liberals lagged behind the Christian Democratic opposition and Vlaams Blok Czech Republic The Civic Democrats and Communists tapped Euro-skeptic sentiment and won big The ruling coalition's parties won just four seats; PM Vladimir Spidla called an emergency meeting of the Social Democrats' leadership Denmark Ex-PM Poul Nyrup Rasmussen's Social Democrats romped, taking almost one-third of the vote - double their 1999 result The ruling Liberals paid for backing the Iraq war. Euro-skeptics did badly, bucking the anti-E.U. trend France Discontent with President Jacques Chirac's government helped propel the opposition Socialists...
...members, making up at least 15 states and representing 65% of the E.U. population, agree, the measure passes. But those moves toward a closer and more powerful union had Euro-skeptics howling - not just in Britain, the ancestral home of the skeptics, but also in places like Denmark and Poland, where some are suspicious that an E.U. speaking with a single voice will drown theirs out. Does this constitution, as the Euro-skeptics claim, push the E.U. far down the path to a single superstate? The straight answer is no. Though countries like France, Germany and Belgium want...