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Europeans often grumble that the European Union is run by anonymous apparatchiks. Surely they're not referring to Prince Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, grandson of Italy's last King, who is campaigning for this week's European Parliament elections. Or to Rickard Falkvinge, the founder of Sweden's Pirate Party, whose campaign rallying cry is for free file-sharing over the Internet. Or to Elena Basescu, a.k.a. Romania's Paris Hilton - the flashy It girl, who happens to be the daughter of the Romanian President, also wants to become...
...London Ignoble Exit Michael Martin became the first Speaker of the British House of Commons in 300 years to be ousted, resigning May 19 amid an outcry over his attempt to block London's Daily Telegraph from publishing details of lawmakers' expense-account abuses. So far, 80 members of Parliament have been singled out for absurd write-offs, from porn to diapers...
...Kuwait Women on Top Four liberal-leaning female candidates were elected to Kuwait's 50-seat parliament on May 16, becoming the first to break through the country's political glass ceiling since women were given the rights to vote and run for office in 2005. Their victories were probably aided by voter frustration with the political turmoil and religious extremism of recent parliaments...
...according to Elaine G. Yaffe ’59, a friend of Lady Vaizey’s since they were seven. They married in 1961 and had three children in 1961, 1964, and 1968. One of her children, Edward Vaizey, is now a Conservative member of Parliament. Marina Vaizey has lived in the same house in the West London suburb of Chiswick for 42 years. Her husband died in 1984. “He died tragically very young,” Yaffe said. Vaizey did not remarry. According to Yaffe, Vaizey told her that she “never...
...Moscow's Carnegie Institute. He points out that Kokoity has not only the support of his own Unity party, but also that of the only other two parties in South Ossetia's 34-seat legislature, the communists and the People's Party. The only democratic opposition is outside parliament altogether...