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...Paris to be his national security adviser, based in the Elysée Palace. Kouchner also has deep political differences with Sarkozy - he voted for Sarkozy's Socialist rival, Ségolène Royal - including a long-standing belief that Turkey should become a member of the European Union, which the President adamantly opposes. Such differences have led to speculation that the Foreign Minister might one day become frustrated and feel undercut. Right now, Kouchner says he is reveling in his big new job, and intends to carry out Sarkozy's policies faithfully. "Now I'm part...
...field. "We select the best suppliers and train them to our standards--which pesticides they can use, how much to use and so on," says Nadege Claudel, Carrefour's quality and food-safety manager for China. For produce sold under its in-house brand, Carrefour has replicated its European tracking system, which labels every vegetable with a number that follows it from harvest to shelf--and adds 20% to the price...
Eighteen years from now an old curtain will rise to expose a production that will pave the path for African and European unification once again. The deep blue color of the Mediterranean Sea will not lose a twinkle, the Strait of Gibraltar will still separate Spain from Morocco, but the underlying sea bed—and possibly Spanish-Moroccan relations—will never be the same again. No, it isn’t a miscalculation of a Pangea Ultima configuration; the governments of Spain and Morocco just agreed to construct an underwater tunnel to connect their rail systems...
...Seven European governments will open a drug intelligence and operations center in Lisbon later this year. These countries - Spain, Ireland, Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Italy and France - will coordinate with U.S. intelligence officers, and plan to begin surveillance flights over the Atlantic in July. They will also coordinate military and police patrols at sea to try to intercept Latin American drug vessels before they reach Africa or Europe. "Whichever warship is nearest will take the vessel and the drugs to Portugal," says Edwards, of the European Commission's drug unit...
...mission is also shrinking. Formally, he will be the special representative of the Quartet of peacemakers, made up of the European Union, the United Nations, Russia and the U.S. But the Quartet's so-called "roadmap" for peace, based on a two-state solution, is now wastepaper. The Israelis are wary of outside mediators, which could leave Blair reduced to lecturing the Palestinians on good governance instead of negotiating with the two sides. This is made all the more difficult by the Quartet's refusal to engage with Islamic militants Hamas, democratically elected to power in January...