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Anti-Migration Patrols Start in Mediterranean

January 29, 2003
As illegal immigration from North Africa and Eastern Europe increases, European countries coordinate efforts to patrol their Mediterranean coastline. Even though Spain and Italy are the major points of entry, illegal immigration affects all countries of the European Union. While some European officials have argued that the influx of illegal immigrants threatens European jobs, they have also...

Europeans Warn of Terror Attacks in Event of War in Iraq

Marlise Simons January 29, 2003
Investigations and arrests of terrorist suspects throughout Europe reveal evidence of possible terrorist action against European cities should war with Iraq break out. Those arrested, mostly immigrants from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, were recruited, trained, and supplied by radical groups in Chechnya and Afghanistan. The large population of Muslim immigrants in Western Europe and the porous...

Europe Acts Against US Effort on Ports

Gregory Couch January 28, 2003
The European Union's member states are joined together in an effort to remain competitive in an increasingly fierce and globally integrated world economy. It remains to be seen, however, whether the trend of globalization will undermine their national sovereignty. The United States, in an effort to combat terrorism abroad, has made bilateral trade and shipping security arrangements with...

Big Bang Expansion of the European Union

Shada Islam January 28, 2003
The expansion of the European Union to include another 75 million people in Eastern and Central Europe is an event of monumental proportion. Negotiations remain underway as 10 new countries adjust their economies and polities to EU standards on agriculture, trade, human rights, and other issues. Meanwhile, people around the globe are taking stock of what a larger EU means for their region. -...

European Court Agrees to Hear Chechens’ Suits Against Russians

January 17, 2003
In a move that both brings Russia within the fold of European law and alienates it from the European community, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Chechens could sue the Russian army for crimes against humanity during the war in Grozny and its surroundings. This moves the Russian and Chechen fight out of domestic courts and into the international arena, giving credence to Chechnya’s...

Europe at a Snail's Pace

January 15, 2003
The European Union's experiment in supra-national government continues to face challenges from divergent national-level political and economic interests. This article in the UK's Economist says that yesterday's meeting between France's president and Germany's chancellor "sealed agreement between the two leaders on how the newly enlarged Union… will be governed....

Jordanian Assaulted

January 10, 2003
With new transportation technology and an integrating world economy has arrived an era in which people can more easily travel for work or pleasure. But expressions of xenophobia may also be on the rise, as an attack on a Jordanian in Germany shows – YaleGlobal .