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...leaders - notably Tony Blair, Silvio Berlusconi, José María Aznar and Costas Simitis - agreed in principle with Powell's argument, many Europeans thought America's full-court press for Turkey - including phone calls from George W. Bush to several heads of state - amounted to meddling. At a summit of the European Council in Copenhagen last week, the 15 leaders of E.U. governments decided that Washington's version of boldness wasn't called for and that Turkey would have to wait until December 2004 to learn whether its reforms meet the E.U.'s criteria for membership. Turkey will have...
...China has already fired warning shots across Kim's bow. During a summit this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Jiang Zemin put North Korea high on their agenda, and afterwards issued a joint statement urging Pyongyang to drop its nuclear weapons program. Last week, Beijing signaled that Kim, who has visited China twice in the last three years, is for the moment persona non grata on the mainland. Asked about reports that a sit-down between Kim and Chinese leaders was imminent, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said: "There is no such thing." "The idea that China...
...China's leaders can only hope that the North heeds their wishes. During the October summit in Crawford, Texas, Jiang told President Bush he did not have frequent contact with Kim. Bush said he had never met North Korea's "Dear Leader," and asked if, in Jiang's more informed opinion, Kim is a "peaceful man." Jiang, according to an American official, leaned forward and broke into English to reply, "Honestly, I don't know...
...under which half-a-million people occupied the piazzas of Florence last month. The march capped a five day conference of intellectuals, trade-unionists and activists assembled as the European Social Forum. Events sparkled with gaiety and giddy energy, contrasting sharply with fresh memories of the 2001 Genoa G8 summit street-battle that resulted in hundreds of hospitalizations and one demonstrator shot dead by the Italian military police. The Forum marked the arrival of a new European left...
...issue-based activism of the 1980s and 1990s and the recognition of a common foe in the world financial structures had been stitched together by the shared experience of police repression. Participants in the Genoa protests recounted how seven different columns of protestors marched on the G8 summit because of disagreements in tactics or ideology. Following the first battles and the shooting of demonstrator Carlo Giuliani, subsequent actions happened in unison...