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...treaty is, of course, secondhand goods. Some three years ago, with much fanfare, the European Union Constitutional Treaty was launched, only to bite the dust when the French and Dutch rejected it in national referendums. This is its second coming. Although the form is different, experts are divided only as to whether 95% of the content is the same, or merely 90%. Since all the most important constitutional innovations of the earlier treaty have been carried forward to the present one, that is neither here nor there...
...treaty was originally presented as a necessity, enabling an enlarged E.U. to function following the accession of the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. In fact, since the Franco-Dutch rejection of the treaty, the E.U. has been functioning as well as it ever has done. But, of course, that was never the real purpose of the treaty. Nor was the true purpose to provide the E.U. with a proper constitution - an objective I warmly support. To understand what the treaty is all about, it is necessary to understand what the E.U. itself is all about...
...study in 2000 by the OECD found that British parents spend less time with their children compared to other nationalities, leaving them more open to influence from their peers and a commercially driven, celebrity-obsessed media. Elder Britons too often see their youngsters as a problem. Dominique Jansen, a Dutch mother living in England, says she recently took her two toddlers to her local church. She was startled by sour looks when her younger child asked her for juice. "It was uncomfortable," she says. "We had to leave." "You can see very vivid differences between the U.K. and countries...
Magdi Allam is Italy's answer to Ayaan Hirsan Ali, the Somalian-born Dutch writer and politician forced to live under police protection for her repeatedly stark public criticism of Islam. Like Hirsan Ali, the Egyptian-born Allam was raised in a Muslim family, before emigrating as a teenager to Europe, where he eventually became famous for railing against what he sees as fundamental flaws in his native religion. The Rome-based journalist has faced repeated death threats from Islamic radicals, and travels to speaking engagements in Italy and abroad with an armed security detail. Needless to say, neither Allam...
...chair of palliative medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, who has performed terminal sedation for his patients. "This is a practice, when used correctly, that's only done in the final stages of life," Byock says. "At that point, nutrition or antibiotics can usually do nothing to prolong life." Indeed, Dutch researchers found that in 94% of the 6,500 cases they studied, the patient was sedated for less than one week before death...