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...European Commission on Tuesday addressed the issue head-on when it proposed reforms to the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the skein of price supports, export subsidies, and environmental payments that gobbles up 44% of the E.U.'s $187 billion annual budget...
...what made the weekend roundup different is that this time the targets were "hostile foreign elements", as the Vietnamese government describes overseas activists - including two U.S. citizens, a Frenchwoman and a Thai national. As of Tuesday, there was no official word on what crime they are accused of; Vietnamese authorities refused to discuss the arrests...
With opposition to his program widening, Sarkozy used a speech Tuesday to French mayors to reiterate his determination to pursue the contested reforms, yet vowed "There will be neither winners nor losers." That wasn't the kind of active engagement many pundits expected in the current showdown with unions. Even his conservative backers and resisting union leaders seemed anxious for Sarkozy to become personally involved in resolving the conflict. But it's still unclear when that will happen. With Sarkozy's personal involvement as arbiter viewed as decisive in brokering a solution, his rather predictable comments Tuesday suggest...
...maybe not. By Tuesday, it still wasn't clear precisely what the party's name would be. What's more clear: the man once considered one of Europe's most revolutionary, if problematic, politicians (and a precious ally for U.S. President George W. Bush) is teetering on the edge of irrelevance. Indeed, it increasingly appears that his multi-billion dollar fortune, which includes ownership of the three biggest private TV channels and numerous publishing holdings, are all that keep him at the center of debate. Eighteen months after narrowly losing his re-election bid to the more conventional Romano Prodi...
When will that be? The question was posed anew on Tuesday, when unions representing France's five million civil service workers called on teachers, hospital workers, postal employees, and administrative staff to leave their jobs and join nation-wide protests against government plans to slash nearly 23,000 public sector jobs next year. Those walkouts greatly broadened the front opposing government reform initiated Nov. 14 by transport and utility workers, whose ongoing strikes against the tightening of their pension schemes have caused most rail travel throughout France to be canceled, and have brought suburban train, subway, and bus service...