Word: parliament
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...credit, Mitsotakis is working to resolve the long-simmering dispute over Cyprus and reach a rapprochement with Turkey. He keeps hinting that if he budges on the Macedonian question, extreme nationalists in the Greek Parliament -- where he has only a two-vote majority -- will bring down his government and replace it with one that will undo his welcome diplomatic initiatives...
Have you ever dreamed of finding a summer job with a large investment bank in Asia or an international consulting firm in Europe? Or how abut spending the year after you graduate working to preserve the rainforests in Costa Rica or writing speeches for a member of Parliament in London? Would you like a teaching job a short bus ride from the Acropolis, or perhaps the chance to be a journalist in India...
British Prime Minister John Major is not as skeptical about European unity as his predecessor Margaret Thatcher was, but he captured the new Continental mood in his speech to a special session of Parliament. "There are fears throughout Europe," he said, "that the Community is too centralized, that it is too undemocratic, that the leaders of the Community are trying to develop it too fast." He said he would not present the Maastricht treaty to Parliament until after Denmark, which rejected it last June, has another try at approving...
...between European and American transportation officials. In reaction to British Airways' bid to acquire a 44% equity stake in financially troubled USAir, a trio of American airlines has closed ranks to oppose the deal, unless they are granted greater access to British markets. At the same time, the German parliament's Transport Committee threatened to terminate its 1955 air treaty with the U.S. if the Americans did not open more airports to German airlines. The parliamentary salvo is seen as a pre-emptive strike in support of Lufthansa German Airlines' bid for the bankrupt U.S. carrier Continental Airlines...
...Italy fledgling Prime Minister Giuliano Amato informed a stunned parliament that despite the crippling economic woes of the country and its temporary withdrawal from the fixed-rate system, "we'll come out of this with our heads held high." The government said it hoped to rejoin the mechanism this week if conditions permitted, and it imposed a $72 billion austerity package of spending cuts and new taxes...