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...winners for Rosetta in 1999 and L'Enfant in 2005, the Belgian brothers are back with another underclass minimalist melodrama, this time set in the polyglot city of Liege. An Albanian girl (Arta Dobroshi) is in an arranged marriage with a drug addict to get her ID; the scheme of the criminals who control her is to kill off the junkie so Lorna can be sold into marriage with a rich Russian who also needs an ID. The film is an improvement on the formulaic L'Enfantand boasts an impressively naturalistic performance by Dobroshi, who could win the Best Actress...
...other form of notable innovation in this area is the E.U.'s own Emission Trading Scheme, which so far has proved a costly (and corrupt) farce by according emitters too much say over the size of emissions permits...
...wasn't until well after World War II that a majority of Britons became homeowners, thanks largely to the encouragement of successive governments. Restrictions imposed on landlords decades earlier had made renting out real estate less lucrative, sparking a gradual sell-off of private properties. A popular scheme launched in 1980 by newly elected Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher granted public-housing tenants the right to buy those homes for knock-down prices. The measure was cheered by one Thatcher minister as "one of the most important social revolutions of this century." By 2005, 70% of U.K. homes were owner-occupied...
...past two decades: until 1992, agriculture expenditure represented nearly 61% of the E.U.'s budget, but by 2013 this will have almost halved to 32%. Barnier also argues for a "community preference" which would favor imports that meet E.U. environmental, hygiene or animal-welfare rules - although such a scheme would likely meet with retaliation from World Trade Organization members...
There's a story that shows up a lot--of people who have some scheme or some way to invent a new life for themselves. Those stories seem to me to be very American. I say that not knowing much about people in other countries...