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...European Union and Russia have all called for a peaceful solution to the standoff, but its outcome will have broad implications for Ukraine's role in world politics. Last month the U.S. Senate approved a bill providing support and funding for Ukraine's candidacy to join nato. Moscow bitterly opposes this and has long been more friendly to the anti-nato Yanukovych. "Yushchenko sees us as a huge log that blocks his path to nato," a Rada deputy of Yanukovych's faction told Time. "He also knows that this log is stuffed with cash," he added, suggesting that money enticed...
...Though he abandoned medical school during World War II, don't discount the healing powers of Jacques Courtin-Clarins. The founder of European cosmetics giant Clarins ditched the doctor dream to soothe Paris' war wounded as a masseur and found fans with his home-brewed treatment oils. Named for a character he portrayed in a high school play (he took the name as his own in the 1970s to celebrate his success), the family-owned company helped popularize therapeutic, plant-based skin-care products and grew to include salons around the world...
Allegedly during the 1930s, The Times cover properly synthesized Britons’ idea of themselves in relation to Europe: “Dense fog over English Channel. Continent isolated.” Britannia did not love the Continent much. With the European Union (EU) turning 50 years old last week, times seem to have changed. But how much...
...steps toward the EU, you won’t find a British signature. That is because Britain only first applied unsuccessfully in 1967 before finally joining in the seventies, ultimately seduced by the common market dynamism and growth of its members, which were rapidly materializing the “European economic miracle.” Call it opportunism...
...historic chance in the Royal Marine hostage crisis in Iran to court the skeptical country par excellence, and prove to the world that European power matters. As a rule, seduction is best when one’s target is disillusioned with the status...