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...that it will create unfair competition," says Agnès Thibault, secretary-general of the European Builders Confederation, which is seeking an exemption from the directive. Unions across Western Europe have raised the specter of an army of low-paid service workers without social benefits arriving from Central and Eastern Europe, undercutting prices and destroying local jobs. Some government heads agree. Luxembourg's Jean-Claude Juncker, who currently holds the E.U.'s rotating presidency, said last week that "we must remove any proposals that open us up to the danger of social dumping, tax dumping or regulatory dumping...
...figures from Indian myths in places like Calcutta. Kapur says he sold Chopra on the idea by telling him "that in five years we will notice a cultural change in the world, where Western pop culture will start to stagnate and a hybrid form of culture that is more Eastern in nature will begin to take center stage...
Alliot-Marie also announced that France will work towards stabilization in Africa, support the Middle Eastern peace process, and promote continued cooperation between the E.U. and NATO...
...Hizballah's power reflects a larger truth about the pitfalls of democracy in the region. "The religious fundamentalists are the only real countervailing power to the local oligarchs," a Middle Eastern diplomat told me. "There may be, as President Bush believes, a general desire for freedom, but the number of people who really understand democracy and free-market economics is very small, and it's groups like Hizballah that are ready to move into the vacuum...
...must begin over cremation," says Kyriakos Mitsotakis, one of 10 lawmakers lobbying for a new bill to allow the custom. If not, warns Antonis Alakiotis, president of the Committee for the Progress of Cremation in Greece, "then we will proceed with our plans to set up a crematorium [in eastern Athens] and deal with the legalities later...