Word: europeanizer
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...fashionable these days to speak of the death of Europe. And Dutch journalist Geert Mak's new history of Europe's 20th century begins with a scene from a picturesque European village in 1999. It's a place he finds filled with endings, loss and decay. "The storks had left by now. Their nests lay silent and empty atop the chimneys. The summer was in afterglow, the mayor sweated as he cut back the municipal grass." If that doesn't evoke expiration, consider that the mayor is cutting the grass with a scythe...
...everyday life from blissed-out guests. And the hotel, like the gleaming white village that envelops it, fuses local tradition with a modern and international sensibility. Gaucín is developing into a new Deia or Fornalutx: a magnet, just like those Mallorcan hot spots, for affluent north European bohemians who want to immerse themselves in Spanish culture without the bother of learning Spanish. The Casablanca perfectly serves that constituency, but also appeals to a wider clientele...
What Europe Hath Wrought Re the cover story about Europe since the Treaty of Rome [March 26]: I was sad to see that my favorite magazine has fallen for the European Commission spin. While the report cited 20 benefits from the European Union (E.U.), it was a pity the article did not list the 40 things the E.U. has not done. Auditors have not been able to approve the annual accounts for the European Economic Community because of fraud and corruption. Democracy has been destroyed, since most of our laws are now made by bureaucrats in Brussels...
...Fearing divestment, its executives met with the Sudan Divestment Task Force, creators of the targeted divestment plan. To ensure the support of its investors, Total informed the Task Force about their plans for implementing a human rights policy developed in conjunction with several local stakeholders in Sudan and the European Coalition on Oil in Sudan. As such, they are currently not targeted for divestment, and, providing they keep their promises, never will...
...Minister. After controversial parliamentary maneuvers and alliance building, Yanukovych became Prime Minister and immediately set out to encroach on the President's diminishing powers. Yanukovych has purged Yushchenko's nominees from his own cabinet. The Rada and the Cabinet now oppose the President's policies, aimed at joining the European Union and NATO, playing on fears of joining the Western alliance fanned by Russian propaganda. The ever looser Orange alliance of Tymoshenko and Yushchenko was being abandoned by parliamentarians, who were defecting to Yanukovych?s better funded and organized Party of the Regions and its coalition partners. That coalition...