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...fact, this summit proved how far from unity the E.U. remains. Leaders couldn't agree on a new European Commission President to replace Romano Prodi, whose term ends in October. Blair and the heads of at least six other countries shot down the candidacy of their Belgian counterpart, Guy Verhofstadt, an outspoken opponent of the war in Iraq and an ardent European federalist. They may still break this logjam in the next few weeks. Meanwhile, there is something in this constitution for both camps. The federalists got clearer rules and roles for the Brussels institutions, but there's also...
...four of this generation's most compelling voices. THE ACTIVIST Dyab Abou Jahjah, 31, Belgium The Belgian government picked a fight with the wrong man. Lebanese-born political activist Dyab Abou Jahjah is charismatic, good-looking, articulate and brash - and he may have a point. Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt accused Abou Jahjah and his Arab European League of inciting the street riots in Antwerp that followed the murder last month of 27-year-old Moroccan schoolteacher Mohammed Achrak by a 66-year-old mentally ill Belgian man. But Abou Jahjah turned Verhofstadt's allegations into a trial of Belgian attitudes...
...weren't interested in it any more," grouses Gacoms. When Sabena was nosing into its death spiral, in the summer of 2001, a remarkable meeting took place at the sumptuous Astoria Hotel in Brussels. Over dinner on July 16, four months before the company tanked for good, Prime Minister Verhofstadt and the new head of Swissair cobbled together an agreement - in secret. In exchange for a Swiss commitment to inject j258 million into Sabena and take over nine of the Airbus orders, the Belgians would drop their suit and let Swissair off its commitment to become the majority shareholder...
...finances to the breaking point and was the root cause of the carrier's collapse last November, the worst business failure in Belgian history, which destroyed 8,000 jobs and prompted the establishment of a parliamentary commission of inquiry, which next month will hear testimony from Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt. "It was an astonishing episode," says Raymond Langendries, president of the commission. As America's business scandals resonate throughout Europe - triggering a slew of safeguards meant to improve corporate transparency and accountability - the unmistakable sound of tut-tutting can be heard across the Continent: many business leaders contend that Enron...
...ETIENNE VERHOFSTADT Antwerp, Belgium