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...though a plurality thought that yes would win in the end. Now President Jacques Chirac has been accused of trying to exercise improper control. After his terse exchanges with European Commission President José Manuel Barroso last month over a proposed directive to liberalize the European Union's service sector, Barroso was suddenly disinvited from a scheduled April 21 appearance on 100 Minutes for Convincing, a political show on the state-owned France 2 network. Marc Tessier, president of France Télévisions, which runs France 2, denied reports that he'd retracted the invitation at the government...
...Border Action Network says she is preparing a human-rights complaint against the U.S. government for "failing to prosecute vigilante groups." Local officials in Arizona are nervous about hundreds of Minuteman volunteers coming from out of state, and Michael Nicely, head of the Border Patrol's Tucson sector, says the Minuteman Project will "hamper border safety...
...gate Central Japan International Airport on a man-made island in Ise Bay, it did so with careful cost controls. (In the rest of Japan, many public-works projects are case studies in waste.) The airport, headed by former Toyota executive Yukihisa Hirano and half funded by the private sector, was almost $1 billion under budget when it opened last month. Combined with the World Expo, it may help local leaders to build an international profile to match its rising domestic status. But will that "Nagoya Gal" look play abroad...
...firmly in Italian hands and have until now been able to count on the Bank of Italy to protect them from foreign takeovers. But the European Commission questioned that policy this year, putting Bank of Italy governor Antonio Fazio on the defensive. The attraction for foreigners: Italy's banking sector is highly fragmented and not very competitive, according to Credit Suisse First Boston, meaning that greater efficiencies - and profits - can be wrung out of them. Lucky Break? Frankfurt prosecutors called off a probe into six Citigroup traders accused of manipulating the European government bond market last August, although a change...
WOLFGANG MAYRHUBER, Lufthansa CEO, on the pressure to consolidate within Europe's airline sector. The German carrier last week agreed to a takeover of struggling Swiss International Air Lines