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...dropped in on his ally Silvio Berlusconi in Rome - and the demonstrations were no less virulent. But this week, Bush is meeting the stroppiest of America's allies head on. In Brussels - the heart of the European Union and refusenik central for Washington's aggressive plan to rein in terrorists and bring democracy to the Middle East - he meets all 25 leaders of the E.U. member states, and dines with the refusenik in chief, French President Jacques Chirac. He promenades along the Rhine with German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, then moves on to Bratislava to exchange views, and perhaps...
...faith-based project of European integration," says John Hulsman, a neoconservative analyst for the Heritage Foundation in Washington. But that's a stingy view of what the E.U.'s projection of soft power has achieved. The goal of E.U. membership has compelled Turkey to abolish the death penalty, rein in its military and grant cultural rights to the Kurds. That same prospect has moved Croatia to give up eight war-crimes suspects, although failure to deliver another key suspect, General Ante Gotovina, will likely lead to postponement of E.U. talks. Even Serbia recently turned over General Vladimir Lazarevic, suspected...
...government is trying to rein in the new freewheeling spirit. Under a criminal-code revision last year, Pyongyang explicitly banned "individual commercial activities" and explicitly made it a crime to participate in real estate brokering, money lending and private hooch production. Authorities in Hoeryong last month confiscated video tapes and rounded up the families of those North Koreans who had defected and sent them to prison camps, according to refugees living in Seoul who have contacts with the North...
...Ariel Sharon in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. But as usual, internal Palestinian politics played a key role in getting him there. Abbas agreed to go to Sharm el-Sheikh because he wants to show that he has Egypt's support in his effort to rein in the militants of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Shaken by Hamas' overwhelming victory in last month's municipal elections in the Gaza Strip, Abbas' Fatah Party sees Egypt as a powerful ally in the political battle against the group...
...hoped the anarchy would end after the formation of a new government last October, the result of two years of talks in neighboring Kenya between warlords and Somali clan elders. The new leaders promised it would bring security and prosperity to their war-torn East African country and rein in the unelected cadres of businessmen and Islamic fundamentalists exploiting the chaos to extend their power bases. So far, though, President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and his government, led by Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi, haven't even made it home. Holed up in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, many...