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...rates. In Schröder's eyes, they are freeloaders, taking E.U. aid to build up their economies while stealing business from nations like his. "It is certainly unreasonable that we finance an unbridled tax competition among each other via the budget of the European Union," he said in Poland on May 26. Germany is expected to press its case again in September at a meeting of E.U. ministers in the Netherlands. Is Schröder's fear justified? It's true that many of the new E.U. states look like tax paradises compared to Germany or France. In January...
...1970s who helped topple his country's communist regime; in Warsaw. As a co-founder of the Committee for the Defense of Workers (KOR), he helped bring Polish intellectuals into the fold of future President Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement. In 1989 he became Labor Minister in Poland's first democratic government (in which welfare payments were popularly dubbed "Kuron's money"), but his 1995 bid for the presidency failed. Upon Kuron's death, Walesa said, "There would have been no success or victory without him, without his intellect...
...DIED. JACEK KURON, 70, chain-smoking Polish academic who helped topple his country's communist regime; in Warsaw. As a co-founder of the Committee to Assist Workers (KOR), he helped bring Polish intellectuals into future President Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement. In 1989 he became Labor Minister in Poland's first democratic government (whose welfare payments were popularly dubbed "Kuron's Money"), but his 1995 bid for the presidency foundered. Upon Kuron's death, Walesa said: "There would have been no success or victory without...
...Forza Italia slipped, but rival Romano Prodi's center-left coalition disappointed, too Netherlands Antiwar, pro-reform voters boosted the opposition left and whistle-blower Paul van Buitenen's Transparent Europe bloc PM Jan-Peter Balkenende's center-right coalition suffered for supporting the Iraq war, losing five seats Poland Low turnout handed victory to right-wingers and Euro-skeptic populists whose supporters bothered to vote The loss makes leftist Premier Marek Belka's shaky minority government look even more vulnerable Spain Three months after an upset victory in national polls, the ruling Socialists won a vote of confidence...
...denouncing his intransigence. "The ambitions for the constitution are reduced - especially on tax and social security - by the clear position of one country ? the United Kingdom," he complained. Blair's spokesman regretted Chirac's remarks and pointedly alluded to Britain's allies among the new eastern members - like Poland and the Czech Republic - who are now diluting France and Germany's historic domination of the E.U. "We are operating in a Europe of 25, not a Europe of six or two or one," he said. But British backers of the constitution lament that by portraying E.U. negotiations as fights against...