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...ller was born in 1953 in the village of Nitzkydorf, Romania. Europe's agonizing political history was already in her DNA: her father had served in the Waffen SS, the crack combat troops of the Nazi Party, and after the war her mother spent five years in a Soviet work camp. Müller was a member of Romania's German-speaking minority - almost no one in Nitzkydorf spoke anything else. This paradoxical sense that even in her homeland, she was in exile, would have a profound effect on her work...
Since then Müller has published more than 20 books, both fiction and poetry. She revisits persistently, almost obsessively, her earlier life in Romania and her experience of political oppression. The Land of Green Plums describes the fate of a young woman from the country who attends a Romanian university. Over the course of the novel - it's narrated by one of her roommates - Lola is politically harassed and sexually traumatized, and finally she hangs herself. The title refers to the unripe plums that the city's ogreish police officers steal and eat as they roam the streets...
...year-old corruption probe - the most serious yet concerning a major British firm - focuses on deals secured by BAE to supply aircraft to South Africa and the Czech Republic, frigates to Romania and radar equipment to Tanzania. In negotiating with the company, the SFO has hoped to extract a plea bargain - it's thought that BAE has been mulling a settlement, though it's unclear what, if anything, the firm would consider admitting to. But given the company's statement, it also appears BAE is ready to defend itself in court. (Read: "Court Blasts Blair Government...
...second place in the Netherlands' Euro poll. Around Europe a ragbag of extremist parties, as varied as the countries that produced them yet united by a vehement nationalism that singles out minority groups as a growing threat, scored in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Romania and Slovakia. Confronted with sliding economies and disappearing jobs, voters kicked the mainstream parties they held most responsible...
...Austria that allowed hundreds of East Germans to cross to the West. But this was preceded by many other events, such as the demonstrations by tens of thousands of people in Heroes' Square in Budapest in the summer of 1988 against Ceausescu's bulldozing of ethnic Hungarian villages in Romania, at a time when gatherings by just a handful of people were illegal. Christina Rozsnyai, Szentendre, Hungary...