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...contrast, says it can't get through to the authorities, no matter how hard it tries. It has proposed settling its tax dispute, even offering to give up substantial ownership, to no avail. Lawyers for Khodorkovsky have filed a formal complaint at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, alleging unlawful detention, and Yukos' lawyers are bracing for the forced sale of the Yugansk subsidiary later this month. "Whoever buys it will be buying an enormous set of lawsuits," warns Stuart E. Eizenstat, a former U.S. Under Secretary of State who is advising Yukos shareholder Menatep. But prospects...
...politicians either too green or too damaged for the national arena, the Parliament took a huge step toward shaking its image as a spineless body that salutes the Commission's every move. And M.E.P.s were tipsy with their newfound power. At Les Aviateurs bar, a popular watering hole in Strasbourg, young M.E.P.s partied until dawn to celebrate their victory. "There isn't a parliament in the history of democracy that didn't have to fight fiercely for its powers," Edith Mastenbroek, 29, a first-term Dutch Socialist, told Time. "That we did it over an issue of human rights - that...
...uprooted al-Qaeda networks in Europe. His arrest and extradition from Syria is a very big blow to jihadists," says one French counterterrorism official. The French say Arif, a veteran of Afghan and Chechen camps, is implicated in a foiled December 2000 plot to bomb the Christmas market outside Strasbourg Cathedral. Arif's alleged role involved recruiting, organizing and oversight. French antiterror magistrates Jean-Louis Bruguière and Jean-François Ricard are also holding Arif for alleged similar involvement with a Chechen-trained group arrested outside Paris in December 2002 that is suspected of planning a chemical...
...French are very territorial when it comes to champagne, ski resorts and, yes, pharmaceutical companies, which helps explain why the government strong-armed Sanofi-Synthelabo into sweetening a hostile bid for the Strasbourg-based Aventis--to create a French "national champion" in the pill market--and why the government warned Swiss drugmaker Novartis to stop fishing in the Rhine. Sanofi-Aventis will be the world's third largest pharmaceutical firm, after Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline. But since the merger announcement, Sanofi's shares have tumbled, in part because investors think $66 billion is too high a price for Aventis, whose...
...laws require police to destroy files on individuals, further complicating operations and alienating allies. "It took us over a month to get German officials to approve certain requests," says a French counterterrorism official, recalling cooperation between France and Germany in 2000 to thwart a planned attack on the Strasbourg Christmas market by a Frankfurt-based cell. "And that was only after we'd provided clear, irrefutable proof France was being targeted for attack. It's really frustrating dealing with them." Manfred Murck, deputy director of the Hamburg office of the BfV, defends the federal system's advantages. It enhances local...