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Framed by the French, European, and U.S. flags, Villepin called upon the United States and France to use their history as allies and common democratic values to combat instability in the Middle East...
When Poland was admitted to the European Union, politicians across Europe viewed the prospect of Poles moving into their countries with xenophobic disdain. In 2005, Philippe de Villiers, leader of France's Euro-skeptic Mouvement pour la France, darkly warned of the "Polish plumber and Estonian architect" triggering "the demolition of France's social and economic model." Before the E.U. admitted 10 new members in 2004, populist fears of unwashed hordes stealing jobs from locals led most of the old E.U. countries, including Germany, Austria and France, to seal their labor markets. In the end, only three...
That work ethic is being applied by young migrant workers--82% of the new East European workers in Britain are between 18 and 34--even if it means swapping desk jobs for building sites. Take Robert Domanski, 29, a law graduate from Warsaw University. In 2003 he followed several friends to Dublin. Today he logs 10 hours a day as a roofer and recently put money down on a new Dublin home. "In Poland I would have to work many, many years to have the same standard of living," he says. Wlodzimierz Oska, 44, a cleaner at the same construction...
...numerous Palestinian security forces and instill some sort of order on the streets. Ziad Abu Amr, the Foreign Minister-designate, and Salam Fayyad, who has been tapped as Finance Minister, are both independent moderates with good reputations in the West. Their job will be to persuade Arab and European governments to lift the financial blockade imposed after Hamas took office a year...
...Although he claims to have been al-Qaeda's foreign operations chief, he has offered no information about European networks. Today, dozens of investigations are going on in Great Britain surrounding the London tube bombings on July 7, 2005. Yet KSM apparently knew nothing about these networks or has not told his interrogators about them...