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...market. Though parts of Europe have enacted some of the most aggressive anti-tobacco policies in the world, in recent decades the rates of smoking between men and women have begun evening out - even as rates decrease among European men, they are increasing among women. Among adolescents in European Union member nations, girls may now be even more likely to smoke than boys. Globally, Chan said, "the rise of tobacco use among girls and young women is among the most ominous trends...
Another big draw is Switzerland's tradition of discretion. Its strict banking privacy laws are a bonus for foreigners who don't want anyone peeking at their accounts. But the European Union, worried about what it sees as rampant tax evasion, is pushing for more transparency in Europe's banking systems. The E.U. Savings Taxation Directive, which came into effect in 2005, demands that member states and their dependencies either automatically exchange information on the accounts kept in their banks by E.U. residents or start imposing a 15% withholding tax on any foreign-sourced interest paid into those accounts. Most...
...author resists any analysis of his writing, but he does not dispute that both of his novels end with a spark of hope. Yacoubian concludes with the hopefulness of Busayna's marriage - albeit to the dubious Zaki Bey. And Chicago ends with a similarly unexpected union. Perhaps this is Al Aswany's way of suggesting that Egypt, too, broken down as it may be, will continue its quest for renewal...
...across the country from Darfur and assaulted the capital city. Hundreds of soldiers and civilians died in two days of bloody street fighting before Chad's President, Idriss Déby, with help from the French, rallied and pushed back his enemies. The tense standoff comes as the European Union is poised to dispatch 2,500 troops to eastern Chad, where hundreds of thousands of Darfurian refugees and displaced Chadians live in fear. Now Europe's leaders must decide: Will those soldiers be a neutral protection force for civilians, or an army fighting to protect Chad's embattled despot...
...says the European Union is undemocratic? This month, the E.U.'s 495 million citizens will have the chance to vote in a remarkable European election, and one that will hit their wallets by next year: choosing the design of the new two-euro coin...