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...even more dire need of reform of its sclerotic and often unfathomable decision-making processes. "This will from now on be a fundamentally different union," said British Prime Minister Tony Blair. "It has to be." One of the 10 new members is Cyprus, which has been split between Greeks and Turks for a generation. The U.N. pushed a plan to end the island's 28-year division in November, hoping that the prospect of E.U. membership would jumpstart negotiations to settle Europe's longest-running standoff. That trap never sprang. As promised, the E.U. will now admit the Greek part...
Pinter, who reads books in English, Croatian, German, Latin and Greek, won a prize last year for his 50-volume collection of Marxist philosophy. He says that his collection actually contains more than 100 volumes, but that he pared it down for the contest...
...important victory by threatening tough action against strikers who break the law. As a result, industrial action by farmers, truckers and state employees fizzled. In the worried and waffling camp are Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi - who has hesitated on promises to free up the labor market - and Greek leader Costas Simitis, who risks seeing his country's hard-won fiscal stability damaged by demands from public sector workers. Here's a look at four leaders standing nose-to-nose with the unions. UNITED KINGDOM It's an awkward straddle: a Labour government - traditional champion of working people - shoving more...
...Carinthia - he has often threatened to leave politics - after his party's share of the vote fell from 26.9% to 10.2%. CYPRUS Enemies Reunited The Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash told United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan that he is ready for talks on reunification. The decision followed Greek Cypriot support for Annan's plan calling for Cypriot Greeks and Turks, divided since 1974, to unite under a six-member executive council and rotating presidency. IRAQ And What's in Here? After a gap of four years, Hans Blix and his United Nations inspectors began looking once more for proof...
...ecologically sensitive Galician shoreline, home to the region's critical fishing industry and a variety of exotic seabirds, are already coated in the gunge that began leaking from the single-hulled Prestige when it foundered in huge waves and gale-force winds on Nov. 13. When the Greek-owned tanker finally broke in two and sank, it took with it the livelihoods of 5,000 people who depend on small-scale fishing in the area. Spanish officials, who have banned fishing from El Ferrol and A Coruna in the north to Cape Finisterre in the south, estimated last week...