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...them to die for it. But the fertility crisis has reached such a dire pass that politicians are beginning to speak out. In a letter to their E.U. colleagues last month, French President Jacques Chirac, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Prime Ministers José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of Spain and Göran Persson of Sweden urged the Union to "take new action to sustain Europe's demography and better reconcile professional, personal and family life with the aim of permitting couples to have as many babies as they want." Ron Lesthaeghe, a demographer...
...Jacques Chirac made one of the most ardent postelection declarations of European independence. "Now more than ever, [Europe] has the need, the necessity, to strengthen its dynamism and unity when faced with this great world power," he said on Nov. 5. Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero told Der Spiegel that Europeans should "have faith in the prospect of becoming the most important global power in 20 years." Of Europe's three most prominent antiwar leaders, only German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder urged cooperation. His congratulatory telegram to Bush pointed out that "our security...
...Hurricane Alley to build houses that are more wind- and water-resistant so my tax dollars don't have to subsidize federal insurance for their beachfront housing. Dobb Mayo Holland, Michigan Spain's New Man In his interview with time, Spain's Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero claimed that "sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength" [Sept. 27]. To repeat an old saying, That's like comparing apples to herrings. There is a reverse spin on Zapatero's view: only a few weeks ago, two female Chechen terrorists blew...
...Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's office in Madrid's Moncloa Palace has an almost Zen-like atmosphere - bright and spare, with cool grey walls and stainless-steel furniture. And there's something Zen-like about Zapatero himself. The Spanish Prime Minister with the beatific smile says his role is not to shape public opinion but to follow it. "I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat," he said in an interview with TIME last week. "I accept that when an overwhelming majority of citizens says something, they are right." Zapatero calls...
...opened a second line of investigation into an Islamic attack - continued to blame ETA." Whom will Spaniards believe? The Socialists (PSOE) contend that voters answered that question on March 14, when they turned out Aznar's government and voted in new Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. But the PP alleges that the Socialists illegally encouraged supposedly spontaneous antigovernment rallies on March 13, which fell within the 24-hour pre-election "period of reflection" during which campaigning is prohibited. The PP demanded the mobile-phone records of Socialist politicians, which they said would reveal their collusion...