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...crisis session on Thursday, increasingly wary of the prospect that the violence, which until now has spread by what one official called "mimickry," could take on a more organized form. Says a French interior ministry official: "If these things continue and spread to places like Lyon, Toulouse and Strasbourg, we'll have a state of insurrection." If that happens, the real debate about how to integrate France's poor people will be postponed again. And the fire next time could be even worse...
...give in on this," says Frank Young, a retired farmer who met Odunsi and Nwanze when they were students in a class taught by his wife. Young says his antideportations group, Athlone Families Together, is prepared to take a case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg: "People are fiercely determined that justice will be done." While much of Europe is considering restricting immigrants, the Irish, it seems, want to keep theirs. That sentiment was unheard-of five years ago, when the government began housing asylum seekers in hostels and detention centers around the country. As busloads...
...victims of the 15-year-long Kurdish uprising that ended with the capture and imprisonment of rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan in 1999. Bayramoglu's tears are not of grief, but of anger. Last week, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled that, in order to comply with European law, Turkey must give Ocalan a new trial. Her fury is directed not only at Ocalan, whom she blames for her son's death, but also at the European institutions that demand Turkey conform to their standards as a precondition for joining the European Union. "We can't just...
...would subside before Reagan leaves April 30 on a ten-day trip to Europe. He will make appearances in Germany before and after the annual economic summit of the seven major industrialized democracies (May 2 to 4 in Bonn), visit Spain and Portugal, and address the European Parliament in Strasbourg...
When European commission President José Manuel Barroso declared that the E.U. needs an institute of technology, a group of M.E.P.s piped up with an idea for the perfect spot: their on-off home, the European Parliament complex in Strasbourg. Their motives are both altruistic and self-serving. Since the mid-90s, parliament has shuttled monthly between Brussels and Strasbourg - at a cost of €200 million a year. The Campaign for Parliamentary Reform (CPR) argues that money is wasted. The French disagree. "I've always voted to keep the seat here because it's an important European symbol," says...