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...Parliament. As one politician went into hiding after being marked for death in a letter pinned to van Gogh's body with a knife, the right-wing coalition government proposed closing radical mosques, ramping up monitoring of foreign imams and stripping suspected extremists of their Dutch passports. "There is way too much political correctness in the Netherlands, and now we're paying for it," says Geert Wilders, another politician who went into hiding after receiving separate death threats...
...empty in parts of Latvia and Slovakia, and schools are closing in eastern Germany for lack of pupils. Germany, in fact, is experiencing such a birth dearth that its population could crash from 82 million to 24 million by the end of the century. If the trend continues, former Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok suggested in a report to the European Council earlier this month, within a generation spiraling pension and health costs will bust European state budgets - and cripple the Continent's economic growth rate. Like Sweden and its Scandinavian neighbors, Britain, Ireland, France and the Netherlands are faring...
...these developments mean tolerance is backfiring on the Dutch, they're not about to accept the alternative. Van Gogh's murder was such an affront to free speech that Cohen, the Amsterdam mayor who was once the butt of his anti-Semitic jokes, asked demonstrators to gather in Dam Square and make noise. Twenty thousand people came, screaming and banging pots, pans and drums in the damp autumn night. A progressive society isn't about to go down quietly...
...clashes between French troops and armed supporters of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo left scores dead in Abidjan, the country's economic center. Toussaint Alain, an adviser to Gbagbo, told Time: "We deplore the lethal brutality of a French army behaving like an occupying force." Hundreds of British, American, Belgian, Dutch and Lebanese nationals, as well as more than 3,000 French residents were evacuated. "We are ready to fight for our freedom, to fight for our rights and liberty of Ivorians," vowed local evangelical preacher Cissé Abdou at an anti-French demo last week. French President Jacques Chirac - with...
...Franco Frattini to replace Rocco Buttiglione, who had angered parliamentarians with his comments on gays and women. The Latvian government replaced its much-criticized nominee, Ingrida Udre, with diplomat Andris Piebalgs. Amid a minor reshuffle that saw Hungarian Laszlo Kovacs moved from energy to tax, Neelie Kroes - the embattled Dutch candidate for Competition Commissioner - kept her post...