Europe

ENVIRONMENT-EU: Cultivating ‘Flower Power’ to Green Products

By IPS Correspondents
The European Commission Thursday adopted a new three-year working plan to promote its 'eco-label' scheme.

POLITICS-COMMONWEALTH: A New Role In The New Year

By IPS Correspondents
The Commonwealth will test its teeth again this year over what it can do to bring freedom and the rule of law back to Zimbabwe.

RIGHTS-FRANCE: Spotlight On The Rights Of Children Born With Disabilities

By Julio Godoy
French teenager Nicolas Perruche would not have been born if his mother had been told of the medical risks associated with his birth.

ECONOMY-SERBIA: Financial Institutions Collapse As Country Faces Bankruptcy

By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
The impact of Serbia's communist past continued to be felt in the first week of the 2002 with the closure of four major state-owned banks.

POLITICS-FRANCE: Electoral Year Begins With A String Of Strikes

By Julio Godoy
French private physicians and bank and mail employees opened the electoral year 2002 by going on strikes in the hope of obtaining better salaries and improved working conditions.

ENVIRONMENT-SERBIA: Illegal Shipment of Dead Exotic Birds Discovered

By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
The so-called "Balkans birds affair" is rocking Serbia following the discovery of a five tonne cargo of frozen dead birds that were smuggled from the Balkans into Italy.

2001-2002: Russia’s Status As Global Player Remains Ambiguous

By IPS Correspondents
Since the Soviet Union fell apart ten years ago, the Russian leadership has repeatedly pledged to create a strong state and improve the country's international standing.

RIGHTS-SLOVAKIA: Communist Links Obstruct Probe into Violations

By IPS Correspondents
Top Slovak politicians' desire to hide links to the former communist regime is stopping investigations of human rights violations under communism, a former Interior Minister has claimed.

RIGHTS-FRANCE: Support Groups Demand a Change in Immigration Laws

By Julio Godoy
Moussa Brihmat has lived all his life in France, and speaks only French.

FINANCE-BRITAIN: New Campaign to Save the Poorest from Debt

By IPS Correspondents
A new campaign is being launched across Britain from January 1 to bring debt relief to the world's poorest nations.

DEVELOPMENT-RUSSIA: Economy Picks up After a Decade-long Decline

By IPS Correspondents
Russia's economy has picked up after a decade-long decline, but economists have warned that a lot still needs to be done to secure sustainable development.

2001-2002: Serbs Consign Milosevic to Oblivion

By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
If the year 2000 marked the end of the decade-long rule of former leader Slobodan Milosevic, the year 2001 can be dubbed "the year when Milosevic was forgotten by the Serbs", analysts and many ordinary people say.

RIGHTS-BRITAIN: Move to Challenge the Legality of New Law

By IPS Correspondents
Lawyers are preparing to challenge the arrest of eight men in Britain on the ground that a new law on terrorism under which they are held is itself illegal.

DEVELOPMENT: Warlords a Threat to Afghan Reconstruction

By IPS Correspondents
Major donors to Afghanistan have warned that areas of the war-torn country under the control of undemocratic warlords would not receive reconstruction and development aid.

2001-2002: Sense of deja vu in Countdown to Euro-Day

By IPS Correspondents
Euro currency "starter kits" are available in German high street banks since Monday, beginning the Herculean task of a major currency changeover, which for many in the country's east will be for the second time just over a decade.

CULTURE-YUGOSLAVIA: Govt Returns Looted Arts to Croatia

By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
Ten years after the destruction of the Croatian town of Vukovar in the war of disintegration of former Yugoslavia, the new era of relations between Croatia and Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) started with the return of works of art looted from Croatia in Dec 1991.

RIGHTS-EU: Racism a Daily Reality for Migrants – Report

By IPS Correspondents
Racism is alive and well in the European Union, with migrants and people from ethnic minorities earning less compared to the majority population and finding it much harder to get jobs, according to the latest report from the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC).

POLITICS-FRANCE: Govt Increases Salary Ahead of Elections

By Julio Godoy
With the French parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled for next spring, the government has taken an extraordinary decision to increase the salaries of civil servants.

RIGHTS-EUROPE: Doctors Without Borders Decries ‘Diversion’ Policies on Refugees

By IPS Correspondents
The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders' has strongly criticized governments'attitudes to asylum-seekers accusing them of failing to meet their international obligations and endangering lives.

MEDIA: Experts Propose a New Global Public News Network

By IPS Correspondents
û Wary of the unsatisfactory media coverage in times of crisis, senior editors and media experts from around the world have stressed the need for a new global public TV that would be different from the CNN and BBC World.

POLITICS: French German Rift Likely to Resurface at EU Summit

By Julio Godoy
The rift between France and Germany over the integration of Eastern European countries into the European Union (EU) is likely to resurface at the EU summit that opened Friday in the Belgian Castle of Laeken near Brussels, diplomats and analysts say.
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