Europe Archives

HUMAN RIGHTS-CZECH REPUBLIC: Gypsies Protest ‘Racist’ National Gallery Director

The Roma (Gypsies) have done little to educate themselves or advance their race, yet demand special treatment. They are unable to live in harmony with white Czechs.

EUROPE: Street Disturbances Form Backdrop to 28-Country Summit

By Tito Drago

Clashes between police and protesters provided the backdrop Friday to the start of the 28- nation summit in which Europe's leaders are debating the future of the European Union (EU) and increasing development aid to poor countries.

FRANCE-CULTURE: Museums Clash Over Pre-Colonial Archives

By Julio Godoy

French museums have engaged in a war of words over the control of archives containing material relating to the pre-colonial heritage from Africa, Oceania, Asia and America.

RIGHTS: Migrants, the Other Victims of the War on Terror

By Gustavo Capdevila

The possibility of strengthening the rights of immigrants, particularly those with "irregular" legal status, continues to diminish in the wake of the Sep 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, according to a study submitted to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

SPORTS: Manchester Pushes History To Repeat Itself

By IPS Correspondents

Manchester rose as a city a century ago on the strength of industrial produce it sold to British colonies. Now the city is rebuilding itself out of a new relationship with its former colonies.

EUROPE: Summit to Focus Gaze Across the Atlantic

By Tito Drago

The heads of state and government of 28 European countries will discuss relations between Europe and the United States, as well as enlargement of the European Union (EU) and other internal matters, on Mar 15-16 in the northeastern Spanish city of Barcelona.

/CORRECTION/DEVELOPMENT-EU: Aid Target Debate Divides EU States

By IPS Correspondents

Activists fear that European leaders may go to the United Nations Financing for Development conference in Monterrey, Mexico March 18-22, without any concrete promises to raise aid levels.

HEALTH-SERBIA: A Traumatised Nation Seeks Out Psychiatric Help

By Vesna Peric Zimonjic

An old Serbian proverb says as long as there are "kafanas" (cafes and restaurants) in Serbia, no one will need psychiatric help because they will be able to talk out their problems while socialising.

DEVELOPMENT-EU: Aid Target Debate Divides EU States

By IPS Correspondents

Activists fear that European leaders may go to the United Nations Financing for Development conference in Monterrey, Mexico March 18-22, without any concrete promises to raise aid levels.

/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/THEATRE-BRITAIN: An Asian Musical Makes History

By IPS Correspondents

In the glamorous West End of London, history is in the making.

POLITICS-GERMANY: Germans Divided Over Involvement in Afghanistan

By IPS Correspondents

With Germans deeply ambivalent over their country's military involvement in Afghanistan, the deaths of two German soldiers in Kabul has led to renewed soul-searching.

ROMANIA-HEALTH: Romania’s Health System In Need Of Intensive Care

By IPS Correspondents

The grim situation in Eastern Europe is taking a heavy toll on state-run health services, creating severe "crisis in care" for an impoverished population left increasingly vulnerable to chronic illness and other diseases.

ENVIRONMENT-CYPRUS: Saving Sea Turtles From Extinction

By IPS Correspondents

In existence for some 95 million years, the noted Mediterranean Sea Turtles are facing growing threats of extinction under the impact of modern fishing methods, expanding tourism and pollution.

ENVIRONMENT: Women Environment Leaders Grapple with Globalisation

By IPS Correspondents

A first of its kind meeting of women environment ministers from 20 countries marked International Women's Day Friday by launching a network for sustainable development.

POLITICS-EUROPE: Liberals Look to Strengthen Movement at Budapest Meet

By IPS Correspondents

Liberal parties from around the world will get together in Budapest later this month to give a new push to the Liberal movement.

POLITICS-EUROPE: Liberals Look to Strengthen Movement at Budapest Meet

By IPS Correspondents

Liberal parties from around the world will get together in Budapest later this month to give a new push to the Liberal movement.

POLITICS-FRANCE: Humanitarian Aid Organisations Come Under Fire

By Julio Godoy

Only a week after relief activists were accused of forcing victims of war and famines in Africa into sexual relations in exchange for food, international humanitarian aid continues to be discredited as new allegations have emerged against non governmental organisations (NGOs).