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...hide their real artistic and political views in order to win the respective loves of the Joyce-admiring Cecily and the Leninist librarian Gwendolen. The themes are the role of art and politics: should one accept a Wildean view of art for art’s sake, a Socialist one of art as political tool, or a Dadaist conception of art as needing to destroy itself? Is war a matter of defending the innocent or of seizing oil wells...
...France's budget deficit well beyond the 3% of gdp limit imposed by euro membership. Even the effectiveness of earlier attempts to attack unemployment remains a hot topic. Earlier this month conservative parliamentarians issued a scathing report denouncing the nation's 35-hour workweek, introduced in 2000 by the Socialist government and designed in part to encourage hiring. The study countered contentions that the scheme had created 350,000 jobs and new tax revenues with claims it had produced virtually no new posts and had cost taxpayers €15 billion in subsidies. The findings were widely seen as politically partisan...
Elected in one of the most fraught moments of Spain's modern history, the government of Socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero takes office this week in an atmosphere of preternatural calm. On Saturday the Prime Minister, 43, was sworn in at Zarzuela Palace in the presence of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia, with a Bible, a gold crucifix and a copy of the Spanish constitution before him. The changeover is more than merely ceremonial. Yes, the early days of Zapatero's government - like the final days of his predecessor's - will be overshadowed...
...willingness to talk could create an opportunity for ETA to renounce violence. Still, the government must stop shy of any moves that could be interpreted as appeasement. "We have to convince them that they must put an end to their violence," says Rosa Díez, a Basque Socialist member of the European Parliament. "We will not pay a political price to end terrorism." Alas, terrorists aren't necessarily swayed by political logic. Despite high hopes in the Basque Country and elsewhere in Spain that ETA would declare a truce, the organization has been silent on that prospect. Zabaleta says...
...hoping the wild-haired, straight-talking populist will serve as a bulwark against voter anger over Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin's belt tightening, and his failure to generate jobs or mend the social fracture between the country's affluent classes and its disgruntled masses. Voters put the opposition Socialists in charge of 20 of France's 21 mainland regions, up from 8 in 1998. "France has clearly expressed a demand for a more social approach," says Pascal Perrineau, director of the Center for the Study of French Political Life at Sciences Po in Paris. "Borloo is the response." Raffarin...