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...also been careful not to offer up the radical political Islamic rhetoric that has put previous pro-religious parties in direct conflict with Turkey's secularist traditions and laws. What's more, it was under the AKP's leadership that Turkey finally began talks to join the European Union, and its economic program is aggressively liberal. (Though the same can't be said of the AKP's social policies...
...extremism that supports it. This threat is real and we cannot shrink from our responsibility to combat it," Obama said, his voice echoing from the trees on a picture-perfect summer evening that was washed in diaphanous light. "If we could create NATO to face down the Soviet Union, we can join in a new and global partnership to dismantle the networks that have struck in Madrid and Amman; in London and Bali; in Washington and New York. If we could win a battle of ideas against the communists, we can stand with the vast majority of Muslims who reject...
...Companies will at last be able to operate management policy based on a secure legal framework," Danièle Giazzi, a labor specialist for the ruling Union for Popular Majority party (UMP). "It's a remarkable advance for the economy." France's Labor Minister, Xavier Bertrand, the bill's author, hailed an "historic" revision of a law conceived by the country's "archaic" left, now in opposition. "It's the end of the imposed 35-hour week," he crowed...
...businesses to stick to the lower-end 10% scale in paying for extra time, knowing that workers fearing for their jobs may not be able to stand up to their bosses for more money. That will be especially true in smaller companies, labor experts say, where staff organization and union representation don't match levels in bigger groups...
...Bulgaria and Romania were subject to special monitoring when they joined the E.U. in January 2007, because neither country was considered fully ready to meet the Union's probity standards. But while Romania was criticized in today's report, the Commission is not stopping aid to Bucharest. (Bulgarians grumble that Romania is just as corrupt, but has been smarter at marketing its reforms and hiding the abuses...