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...like the U.S. But almost two-thirds of them wanted the E.U. to cooperate with the U.S. rather than compete with it. "The idea that Europe can coalesce around opposition to Bush is just wrong," says Toomas Hendrik Ilves, vice chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the European Parliament and a former Estonian Foreign Minister. Only when Europe is united around a positive, not arrayed against a negative, Ilves argues, will it find its way to unity...
...reputation for tolerance is a thing of the past, and still others to wonder whether their grand experiment in integration has ignited an all-out clash of civilizations. "We have allowed a climate to develop in which everything is tolerated," says Geert Wilders, a right-wing member of parliament who has received death threats from radical Muslims. "There is way too much political correctness in the Netherlands - and now we're paying...
...Gogh's murder part of a wider terrorist plot, the prosecutor's office arrested five men - four Moroccans and one Spanish-Moroccan - in addition to Mohammed B. The letter knifed into Van Gogh's body was typed and addressed to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born member of parliament who wrote and narrated Submission, and contained threats against Hirsi Ali, Jozias van Aartsen, parliamentary leader of the right-wing vvd party, and Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen...
...Stablity Pact EUROPEAN UNION The crisis over the incoming European Commission appeared resolved, as leaders in the European Parliament indicated they would endorse Commission President José Manuel Barroso's new lineup in a vote set for this week. Italy's Silvio Berlusconi nominated Foreign Minister Franco Frattini to replace Rocco Buttiglione, who had angered parliamentarians with his comments on gays and women. The Latvian government replaced its much-criticized nominee, Ingrida Udre, with diplomat Andris Piebalgs. Amid a minor reshuffle that saw Hungarian Laszlo Kovacs moved from energy to tax, Neelie Kroes - the embattled Dutch candidate for Competition Commissioner...
...height of the movement, the Cabaret provided a venue for young nihilist artists to experiment, exchange ideas and make fun of conventional art. Over the years the Cabaret Voltaire fell into disrepair. The building was occupied by a succession of nightclubs, bars and squatters until 2002, when the city parliament, spurred by local artists, earmarked €775,000 to renovate the landmark and reopen it as an informal Dadaist venue. The newly refurbished Cabaret Voltaire, which opened at the end of September, features an archive of notes, documents and testimonials by Ball and other early Dadaists that chronicles the birth...