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BELGIUM Democracy Rules Under the chairmanship of former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, representatives of the 15 current members of the European Union, as well as the 13 states applying to join, met to discuss reforms to the 45-year-old organization. Even as the Convention discussed how to make the E.U. more democratic and efficient, critics denounced the decision to allow a 12-member Presidium, not the full 105-delegate meeting, to decide the agenda...
...necessary power to E.U. institutions without giving up the democratic control that now resides mostly in national capitals? How to untangle the often overlapping competences of local, regional, national and Continental governments? At a scheduled pace of one session a month under the stern leadership of former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the Convention has a Herculean task to complete within a year's time...
...opening speech, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing greeted Convention delegates in all 11 official languages of the European Union - and in Polish. It was a nice gesture, even though Poles said he mangled the words. But it was hardly enough. Almost half of the national delegates are from the 13 candidate countries. The real prospect that as many as 10 of them will join the European Union in 2004 was what spurred the organization to take on the task of reforming its institutions lest they freeze up when the newcomers arrive. Yet many of the candidates feel they have...
...Val Ackerman, president of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) spoke to an audience of 80 at Harvard Business School yesterday about the challenges of building a woman’s professional sports league...
...December he won a giant-slalom event in Val d'Isere, France, and then drove seven hours to Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, the next day and won a slalom event. No other American had won two events in a row since Phil Mahre in 1983. Then, in early January in Adelboden, Switzerland, Miller won a race by nearly 2 sec. It's an astonishing margin, like winning by 20 m in a 100-m dash. He has been on the winners' podium eight times this season, compared with three last season...