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...several heads of state - amounted to meddling. At a summit of the European Council in Copenhagen last week, the 15 leaders of E.U. governments decided that Washington's version of boldness wasn't called for and that Turkey would have to wait until December 2004 to learn whether its reforms meet the E.U.'s criteria for membership. Turkey will have to be patient, but it now seems on track to eventually win the prize it seeks. "There was a general meeting of the minds that the U.S. and Turkey had overplayed their hands," according to a Danish official. And European...
...their country may be slipping back into totalitarianism. "We have failed to create a system that guarantees democracy," warns Viktor Yuschenko, leader of the Our Ukraine bloc, the largest opposition faction in parliament, and a former Prime Minister removed by Kuchma in April 2000 for his modest attempts at reform. "We are not just close to a dictatorship; we are already in a serious phase of dictatorship." Don't expect to hear about this through the temniki. The New York-based organization Human Rights Watch recently described the government directives as "subtle but very effective censorship" and urged the Ukrainian...
...Aghajari verdict has stirred the long-dormant student movement, provided focus for popular discontent and injected new life into the standoff between President Mohammed Khatami's reformist parliamentary majority and the hard-line clerics who control the Expediency and Guardian Councils, which form a supervisory executive. Two reform bills, limiting the Guardian Council's ability to veto electoral candidates and curbing the excesses of an often arbitrary and politically motivated judiciary, are currently under review by the parliament. Many see the proposed laws as Khatami's best chance to deliver on reform. Student rallies are routinely broken...
Chopra, chair of the council’s Student Affairs Committee, and Stannard-Friel, co-chair of the Campus Life Committee, ran on a platform calling for student representation on the Administrative Board, more funds for social events and student input in curricular reform. They will take office...
...later this week to discuss the question of enlargement. Turkey is the only applicant that has not been given a date to begin negotiations over becoming part of the EU. We believe that Turkey does deserve to be given a date. We have made 48 constitutional amendments and many reforms over the past 18 months, and another reform package will be voted on in parliament this week. Turkey is fulfilling all of the political criteria, and should be given a date. This is how we will prove Samuel Huntington wrong, and show that civilizations need not clash, but can actually...