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...issues, such as parliamentary reform, the three often club together to push their case. For example, the end of the Friday votes in Strasbourg was the first step toward their goal of canceling the Parliament's expensive monthly treks to Strasbourg altogether. Despite their youth, they are old hands at playing the Brussels power game. Before they were elected M.E.P.s, all three worked as speechwriters or policy wonks in various E.U. institutions, picking up language skills, contacts and a shared distaste for bureaucracy. With their personal websites, e-mail campaigns and regular appearances on high-brow talkshows, they know...
...Although Van Hulten, Clegg and Van der Laan squirm at the "young Turks" characterization, they concede that fresh ideas are needed as the E.U. faces the challenges of internal reform and eventual enlargement to the east. "We need a reconciliation between the generation that built Europe and the one that will take it into the future," says Van Hulten. Waging war on the old guard might seem a strange way of building bridges, but the three M.E.P.s know that time is on their side...
...United States. After graduating as a top student from France's élite Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, he collected two M.B.A.s from Harvard and a third from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He then spent several years helping East European countries reform their economies: he advised former Russian Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais, among others, and masterminded Poland's privatization plan...
...hope it will be a success," Djelic says of the reform movement in his own country. "But reforming Serbia is different from anything that's been done so far. So the transition plan will be tailor-made to our specific needs." Selling a market economy to Serbs may be tough. After only a few weeks in the job, Djelic is already under pressure from angry state factory workers demanding back pay and higher wages. "The former regime used to print money to pay the workers, and it led to one of the world's highest inflation rates," Djelic says...
John McCain's crusade for campaign-finance reform has attracted plenty of well-wishers over the years, but his Republican colleagues in the Senate have not often been among them. His attempt to get the bill past a G.O.P. filibuster in 1999 set off one of the nastiest Senate confrontations in recent memory, as members of his own party ganged up to smother his reform. So it was both a good omen and a bit of a surprise that last week, as McCain launched yet another attempt, the bouquet of flowers he received came not just from a Republican...