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...text is fixed - perhaps at the European Council meeting in June - before deciding to have it ratified by Parliament or take the larger risk of submitting it to the public. And as if opposition from his own team wasn't enough, last week the European Commission announced it would put the E.U.'s €3 billion in agricultural export credits on the negotiating table to jump-start stalled global trade talks. The credits are sacrosanct in France, the largest recipient of such aid, and even more so to Chirac, who has made the defense of France's farmers an anchor...
...attempt to avert the total collapse of the Congress Party's fortunes, and prepare the way for one of her children to assume their father's mantle. The Prime Minister's office has suddenly become available, unexpectedly early, long before 33-year-old Rahul, just elected to parliament for the first time, is ready. She may not have anticpated it, but Sonia may now be forced to take the top job herself. Given the difficulty of altering the economic circumstances that ended Vajpayee's tenure, the top job may be harder to hold than...
...interviewed on Perth radio, there's a good chance that within a few hours the relevant minister will be responding to the remarks; if a prominent commentator criticizes the government, that will also be passed back to Canberra and duly noted. Less surreptitiously, the Government Members Secretariat in Parliament House churns out material for coalition M.P.s and grooms them for the media...
...ZEALAND After a year of fierce public debate, a controversial law on ownership of the nation's foreshores and seabed passed its first reading in Parliament. Designed to bypass a Court of Appeal ruling that Maori tribes could apply for title to areas below the high-water line, the law vests ownership in the Crown but allows Maori to claim "ancestral connection" to parts of the coastline and insist on being consulted about their use. Maori leaders who object to the law say the foreshores are part of their people's heritage; opposition politicians say the law gives Maori more...
...Saakashvili had won the respect of Russian President Vladimir Putin by successfully balancing Russian and U.S. interests in the region. Arriving in Batumi to a hero's welcome early Thursday morning, Saakashvili thanked the Ajarians for their "unprecedented heroism and dignity." In Tbilisi, Nino Burjanadze, Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, told Time that Georgia had "shown the whole world how important democratic principles are to us." Abashidze was "a classic Soviet-era apparatchik," says Robert Parsons, head of the Georgian service at Radio Liberty in Prague. He effectively stripped opposition parties and media of any influence; Abashidze himself would appear...