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...Babylon," a stunning exhibition at the Louvre in Paris from March 14 to June 2, seeks to re-establish that reality. It deftly illustrates how 2,000 years of Babylonian history gave rise to manifold myths, and how European artists and thinkers responded to and transformed them. Put on jointly by the Louvre, Berlin's Staatliche Museum (where the exhibition moves on June 26) and London's British Museum (where it will open on Nov. 13), it's an unprecedented collaboration that brings together nearly 400 artifacts and pieces of art. Béatrice André-Salvini, a curator...
While arranging the itinerary will be complex enough, there is also the matter of dealing with the Pontiff's philosophical fascination with America. Glendon said the Pope is "intrigued" by the U.S. model for managing the church-state divide, which contrasts with the contemporary European tendency to avoid public professions of faith. "We are a nation that has traditionally valued the role of faith in sustaining the democratic experiment," she said. "Culture comes before politics... and religion is at the heart of culture." Though the Vatican was staunchly opposed to the war in Iraq, Glendon arrives largely after the fact...
While the 785 members of the European Parliament rarely miss the opportunity to hammer home their democratic credentials, too often they find themselves ignored or mired in thanklessly complicated legislative procedure. But it can get worse: now the European Union's only directly elected institution is struggling to fend of accusations of widespread fraud among its members...
...page report was only made public when maverick Dutch Green Party MEP Paul van Buitenen broke the rules to put a summary on his website. Van Buitenen, whose whistle-blowing in 1999 helped bring down the entire European Commission, says the Parliament's top brass knew about the fraud for years but decided not to take any action to tighten the rules. "But so far, the Parliament has not been prepared to come forward with concrete proposals to improve the current system," he says. "The Parliament cannot claim to be the conscience of Europe while this is happening...
...named and shamed, and the worst ones to be thrown in jail. But he says the Parliament shot itself in the foot by trying to keep the report secret. "It was utterly pathetic, naïve and hypocritical. You wonder what planet they grew up on," he says. "The European Parliament is doing good work. But in terms of recognition and acceptance by the wide European public, these incidents can only harm it. And that's a shame...