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...anti-Semite. But something more than policy differences are behind the astounding poll released by the E.U. last week, which shows that six out of 10 Europeans regard Israel as the greatest threat to world peace, ahead of North Korea and Iran. The results, said European Commission President Romano Prodi, "point to the continued existence of a bias that must be condemned out of hand." He might also have asked whether Israel has become the über-Jew, a legitimate target where individual Jews are not. There is a quip ascribed to the Israeli psychoanalyst Zvi Rex: "The Germans will...
...legalize assisted suicide in France; 88% favor such a move. It's legal in Switzerland, and in certain cases in Belgium and the Netherlands. - By Bruce Crumley Scandalous BELGIUM European Commission President Romano Prodi fended off calls for high-level resignations over the misuse of funds by Eurostat, the E.U.'s statistical office. But his defiant stand did little to convince doubters of the Commission's ability to account cleanly for its €94 billion annual budget. Try Again SWEDEN Police investigating the stabbing murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh released suspect Per Olof Svensson and cleared him of involvement...
...fences to mend are those with some of France's European Union partners. In Athens last week, E.U. leaders offered a picture of comity as they formally signed accession treaties with 10 new members. "There was no crying, no fighting and no hand thumping," marveled European Commission President Romano Prodi. Chirac avoided any echoes of the brusque treatment he meted out in February toward the new members from the former Warsaw Pact. He also had a 25-minute t?te-?-t?te with Tony Blair. Apart from the still touchy and inchoate issue of the E.U.'s foreign and defense policy...
...agreed the exact terms under which 10 candidate countries, most of them survivors of the Soviet bloc, will join the Union on May 1, 2004. "The deal that we have reached here in Copenhagen represents the E.U. at its best: leadership, solidarity and determination," said European Commission President Romano Prodi. The Union will need plenty more of the same. Pending ratification of the accession agreements by both new and existing member governments, the E.U. will be much bigger, far poorer on average, and in even more dire need of reform of its sclerotic and often unfathomable decision-making processes. "This...
...Greek producers who make three quarters of the world's feta. Danish firms vowed to fight the decision, but Italians may also want to point out that the word feta is originally from Latin, not Greek. BOTTOM LINES "I know very well that the Stability Pact is stupid." Romano Prodi, European Commission President, admitting that E.U. deficit limits are too rigid "Of all the places to be marooned by a strike I guess this is the best." Emma Marsh, tourist in Venice, after her flight home was canceled when unions launched Italy's second general strike this year "Sentencing Andersen...