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...leaders of two of the Union's biggest members jump headlong into the summer silly season. It was bad enough when Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi compared Martin Schulz, a German member of the European Parliament, to a Nazi concentration camp guard. But then Northern League firebrand Stefano Stefani - who was clearly in the wrong job as Italy's Deputy Industry Minister for Tourism - wrote a newspaper article calling German tourists "stereotyped blonds with hypernationalist pride ... who noisily invade our beaches." He added that "this Schulz probably grew up ... drinking gigantic amounts of beer and gorging himself on fried potatoes...
...Germans are blonds with hypernationalist pride who invade our beaches. - STEFANO STEFANI...
...serious and trustworthy person" and was close to Berlusconi. If true, the allegations might explain the Berlusconi coalition's clean sweep of Sicily's 61 Parliament seats in the 2001 elections. In his court testimony, Giuffrè went on to say that during the late 1970s, top Mob boss Stefano Bontade used to visit Berlusconi at the businessman's villa on the outskirts of Milan. Speaking later with reporters, Berlusconi's lawyer flatly dismissed the testimony as "false" and an attempt to discredit the Prime Minister and his party. Dell'Utri remained calm throughout, but took the microphone...
...targets. Zarqawi has ordered trained operatives into Europe, Beth told a meeting of the German-Atlantic Society in Berlin: "He has experience with poisonous chemicals and biological weapons ... and has become highly active. Something big is in the air." Such apprehensions are shared by Milan's lead antiterror prosecutor Stefano Dambruoso, who told TIME that "the network is beginning to move again. Enough time has passed for them to reorganize and re-establish contacts across Europe." The French too were alarmed. "We're absolutely scrambling here," said a harried top French terrorist judge. "Every light in every service in France...
...becomes part of the infrastructure of surveillance and control." Also worried is Marco Cappato, an Italian Member of the European Parliament. An original sponsor of the E.U.'s data-protection legislation, he turned against it, he said, when late amendments under- mined its language. His compatriot, Rome law professor Stefano Rodot?, who helped draft the E.U.'s Charter of Fundamental Rights, views the new European law as the "last frontier" of compromise between data protection and national security. Phone and Internet companies are also unsettled. "As a global company, we would prefer a harmonized approach," says Richard Purcell, Microsoft...