Europe Archives

IRAQ-EUROPE: Workers Stop for Peace, in First Europe-Wide Strike

Workers all over Europe sat down on their jobs for 15 minutes Friday amidst blaring anti-aircraft sirens, pot-and-pan banging and chants of anti-war slogans, to protest a possible war on Iraq.

RIGHTS-SLOVAKIA: Law Proposed against Forced Sterilisation

By IPS Correspondents

New legislation has been proposed following a report that more than a hundred Roma women were sterilised without their consent.

POLITICS-IRAQ: Russia Wants Neither Vote nor Veto

By IPS Correspondents

The Russian government hopes it will have to use neither its vote nor its veto in the United Nations Security Council over an attack on Iraq. Its best choice is that it is not asked to make a choice.

POLITICS-SERBIA&MONTENEGRO: Underworld Surfaces Again

By Vesna Peric Zimonjic

The assassination of Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic has shocked Serbs out of their belief that the days of violence ended with the fall of former president Slobodan Milosevic two years ago.

POLITICS-SLOVAKIA: Saddam’s Shadow Over a Small Nation

By IPS Correspondents

Slovakia is not quite sure what it is getting into when it joins the European Union next year.

POLITICS-SERBIA&MONTENEGRO: Young Find Hope in a Fractured Nation

By Vesna Peric Zimonjic

After a decade of repression, years of sanctions, weeks of bombing and the break-up of a nation, the young in Serbia are finding a new optimism.

/ARTS WEEKLY/BRITAIN: Fine Story, If Not Pretty

By IPS Correspondents

The once small stream of illegal immigrants coming to Western Europe and particularly the United Kingdom is now turning into a flood.

/INT’L WOMEN’S DAY/EUROPE: Sex Exploitation of Immigrants Continues

By IPS Correspondents

The prosperity and social modernisation of the European Union has given women access to spaces that they were previously denied, but not all are reaping the benefits. Many of the women excluded are undocumented immigrants who are marginalized, mistreated and sexually exploited.

/INT’L WOMEN’S DAY/RIGHTS-FRANCE: A Women’s Struggle Just Beginning

By Julio Godoy

”We're neither whores nor slaves”, goes the slogan of a group of French women of North African origin just concluding a national tour.

POLITICS-IRAQ: France Opposes War, But May Not Veto It

By Julio Godoy

France continues to oppose a second United Nations resolution that would sanction an attack on Iraq, but its leaders will not find it easy to use a veto against the U.S. and Britain.

ENVIRONMENT-RUSSIA: Destroying Chemical Weapons Not Easy

By IPS Correspondents

Where a government is determined to destroy chemical weapons, it is running into opposition because groups say the process is not environmentally friendly.

RIGHTS-FRANCE: Police Bear Down on Immigrants

By Julio Godoy

The killing of a 17-year-old boy by French police has drawn attention again to tough police action against young immigrants.

HEALTH-SERBIA & MONTENEGRO: No Heart for Organ Donation

By Vesna Peric Zimonjic

Serbia has introduced organ donor cards, but few are lining up yet to give what they may no longer be able to use.

POLITICS-CZECH REPUBLIC: Eurosceptic ‘Anti-Havel’ Elected President

By IPS Correspondents

On its third attempt and by the narrowest of margins, the Czech parliament last week elected Vaclav Klaus, a Eurosceptic, to succeed the famed writer and rights activist Vaclav Havel as head of state.

EUROPE: Britain Tops in Prison Population

By IPS Correspondents

Britain is the prison capital of western Europe, and has even surpassed countries such as Libya and Malaysia in the jail ratings, according to latest figures.

TRANSPORT-BRITAIN: London Could Change Cities Around the World

By Sanjay Suri

The face of Central London has changed over the past week. And cities around the world are looking now to see if they can change as London has.

RIGHTS-SERBIA&MONTENEGRO: Roma Struggle for a Roof

By Vesna Peric Zimonjic

Angry protesters blocked the highway between Belgrade and the second largest Serbian city Novi Sad repeatedly in recent weeks to protest against a new housing project for Roma people.

/ARTS WEEKLY/IRAQ: A Conflict Plays Out on the Canvas

By Sanjay Suri

When you clip the wings of the angel of peace, that too is a demonstration against war. That demonstration comes in a painting by Iraqi artist Hani Mazhar in his latest work 'Between the Elm and the Palm Tree' on exhibition in London.

ENVIRONMENT-BRITAIN: Blair Takes on Global Warming

By Sanjay Suri

British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced ambitious targets Monday to check global warming - and took a step away from the close Anglo-American relations over Iraq to criticise the U.S. for not doing enough to tackle it.