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...then moving on to the finance post in April - and he has some real achievements to show for it. In 2002, insecurité - fear of rising crime and a sense that illegal immigration was out of control - was on peoples' minds and fueling the surge of Jean-Marie Le Pen's xenophobic National Front. Interior Minister Sarkozy put more cops on the street and introduced monthly performance ratings so people could see the results. He ordered high-profile raids on organized crime gangs, chased prostitutes out of residential areas, and built detention centers for illegal immigrants, accompanying each initiative with...
...government leaders at a summit on Dec. 17 - has focused the minds and unstopped the pens of critics around Europe. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the Vatican's conservative theologian, warned that admitting Muslim Turkey to the E.U. would threaten the Continent's "cultural richness." French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin pointedly asked in the Wall Street Journal: "Do we want the river of Islam to enter the riverbed of secularism?" Austrian E.U. Commissioner for Agriculture Franz Fischler opined that Turkey was culturally "oriental," geographically "Asian" and that accession would open "a geostrategic Pandora's box." Frits Bolkestein, the Dutch E.U. Commissioner...
...Economic Cooperation and Development (O.E.C.D.). Oil prices continue to spike - last week they briefly hit $49 per bbl. in New York, and a study by the International Energy Agency estimates that a sustained $10 rise in oil prices knocks about 0.5% off the euro zone's economic growth. But Jean-Philippe Cotis, the O.E.C.D.'s chief economist, says that unlike the oil shocks of the'70s and early'80s - when the price was almost double in today's dollars - the increases aren't prompting inflationary wage demands, and so far haven't hurt consumer demand. "The impact is modest," Cotis...
...irony is real iron: the Minister has solid military facts to flaunt. In Pristina, she attended the formal handover of command of Kosovo's more than 18,000 NATO peacekeepers to French Lieut. General Yves de Kermabon. Then she flew to Kabul to meet troops under French Lieut. General Jean-Louis Py, who last month took charge of NATO's 10,000-strong peacekeeping mission there. Now there are roughly twice as many European troops deployed outside the E.U. and NATO countries as there were 10 years ago, according to Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform...
...months by their captors. But this marks the first time humanitarian volunteers have been abducted from their offices. The coordinator of aid workers in Iraq, Jean-Dominique Bunel, who hastily resigned his post and left the country last week, said he expected most of the remaining 50 expatriate aid workers he'd been overseeing in Iraq to leave quickly. Pietro Del Sette of Rodino's group, Movimondo, said there was little choice. "We don't want martyrs. But for us, this is definitely a defeat." - By Jeff Israely The Milburn Return BRITAIN Prime Minister Tony Blair brought key ally...