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...Indeed, at the level of pure headcount, Europe has few extra soldiers to send. European nations already provide around half of the 50,000-strong ISAF force in Afghanistan, with the British, French, Germans and Dutch making the principle contributions. On top of that, this week the E.U. launched its first naval operation: a mission to fight piracy and armed robbery off the coast of Somalia. Since the beginning of 2007, the E.U. has had 15 'battlegroups', each with at least 1,500 soldiers, dealing with local crises around the globe. "They are not just chicken, they are not just...
...example, he referenced the Dutch practice of painting a house fly on the inside of airport urinals. This resulted in an 80 percent reduction in overall “spillage,” because men subconsciously aimed for the etching...
...idea when beginning her own projects, frequently finding inspiration for her work by rummaging through old collections of photographs. In the film, photographs often prompt unusual ideas. A series of pictures with blacked-out figures calls memory’s role in photography into question, while short interviews with Dutch citizens about their favorite images probe the human penchant for collecting what others find meaningless. Throughout the film, visuals frequently take the place of verbal explanations. Tan periodically interrupts her documentary work with a panning shot of a man holding a mirror. As he walks, the mirror reflects the landscape...
...neighbor who peaked around the door to find out what all the noise was about one night saw the devil himself. The single window in the room is now bricked up and the glazing painted with a fake curtain. According to a clerk at a nearby hotel, a Dutch diplomat who not long ago rented rooms the floor below, was on several occasions so spooked by the unexplained noises that she spent the night at his hotel...
...United Kingdom and the rest of Europe, where residents had deposited billions in the other two Icelandic banks attracted by their high interest rates. Amidst the banking run that immediately followed, the British government transferred authority over an Icelandic subsidiary in the UK, and then sold it to the Dutch firm ING. Because Landsbanki had over 300,000 British depositors through its Icebank subsidiary, Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s government used anti-terrorist legislation to freeze Icelandic assets in the UK, including property of the Icelandic Central Bank. Just a few days later, Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair...