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Most young Europeans don't dream of making it big in Brussels. But members of the European Parliament Nick Clegg, 34, Michiel van Hulten, 32, and Lousewies van der Laan, 35, are not your average thirty-somethings. For a start, they are passionate about European politics - and that means they're passionate about the European Union. Mention institutional reform and they bristle with excitement; ask of their ambitions and they gush about shaking up the E.U. "If you're young and want to change things, you should follow the power - and power is shifting toward Brussels," says Dutch Liberal...
...Since they were first elected in June, 1999, the three M.E.P.s have been making waves in the still pond of the Brussels bureaucracy, striking at some of the E.U's cushiest perks and least effective talking shops. Dutch Socialist Van Hulten successfully fought for Friday meetings of the European Parliament in Strasbourg to be scrapped because no one bothered to turn up for votes, a move that has saved taxpayers millions of euros; Clegg has campaigned for the Parliament's over-generous system of pay and allowances to be scaled back; and Van der Laan has called for feckless institutions...
...Although Van Hulten, Clegg and Van der Laan squirm at the "young Turks" characterization, they concede that fresh ideas are needed as the E.U. faces the challenges of internal reform and eventual enlargement to the east. "We need a reconciliation between the generation that built Europe and the one that will take it into the future," says Van Hulten. Waging war on the old guard might seem a strange way of building bridges, but the three M.E.P.s know that time is on their side...
...less), the exhibition marks the opening of the Societa per Azioni Palazzo Grassi (Grassi Palace Society for Actions), housed in an 18th century structure whose restoration and conversion was brilliantly carried out by the Milanese architect Gae Aulenti. The new museum, lavishly funded by Fiat, is run by Pontus Hulten, former director of the Pompidou Center in Paris...
...itself was, in either case, extraordinary. The best of the three was "Paris-Berlin," although one needed the stamina of a goat to traverse the screes and piles of evidence it presented. But in all three shows there was the lure of epic subject, rightly presented by Director Pontus Hulten and his staff as one of the great dramas of cultural history...