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Ads by Google      World France and most Euronationalists dream of the day that the European Union will stretch from Portugal to Siberia to Kamchatka. Europeans, especially younger Europeans, have convinced themselves that they are not responsible for any major crime, and are actually the heirs to a luminous cultural tradition (not to centuries of massacres, racism and injustice). Europeans are much less open to cultural exchanges than they proclaim: the west sees immigration as a problem (unlike the USA that sees it as a solution), the east preempts the "problem" from happening by minimizing immigration. http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/europe.html      DNC: Democratic Party Platform Democrats are committed to building an America in which no neighborhood or town see joblessness and shuttered businesses commonplace or inevitable, and where no families or young adults surrender their God-given right to work hard and live the American dream. Democrats support President Clinton's veto of the Republican tax scheme that would have diminished anti-discrimination protections for middle-class and lower-income workers. With Democrats in the White House, we have passed the Family and Medical Leave law, which has been used by 20 million Americans to care for a newborn baby or a sick loved one. http://www.democrats.org/about/2000platform.html      EUROPA - Rapid - Press Releases I am a firm believer in that European Dream, and in the potential we have for promoting democracy, freedom and justice throughout the world, and particularly in our neighbourhood. Jeremy Rifkin wrote that the “European Dream is a beacon of light in a troubled world. In this case, an important factor was the European Union and its new initiative, the European Neighbourhood Policy. http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/05/257&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en      Speeches to the European Parliament by Bashir Khanbhai MEP The Lisbon European Council dream for the EU to be the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010 cannot be realised unless we stimulate and I mean stimulate SMEs. I have been told by Mr Martí, one of his vice-presidents, that the EIB is owned by the Member States and, as such, according to the Treaty, it is not an EU institution obliged to respond to the European Parliament, the Court of Auditors or OLAF. It is about time the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers recognise that Africa is not like the US or Europe, where democracy can be understood. http://www.erylmcnallymep.org.uk/khanbhai.htm   (10509 words)      Speeches to the European Parliament by Bashir Khanbhai MEP The Lisbon European Council dream for the EU to be the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010 cannot be realised unless we stimulate and I mean stimulate SMEs. I have been told by Mr Martí, one of his vice-presidents, that the EIB is owned by the Member States and, as such, according to the Treaty, it is not an EU institution obliged to respond to the European Parliament, the Court of Auditors or OLAF. It is about time the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers recognise that Africa is not like the US or Europe, where democracy can be understood. http://www.erylmcnallymep.org.uk/khanbhai.htm   (10509 words)      Socialist Party - 2005 Election News He also stood in the European elections in 1994. David Kerr, standing in East Antrim for the Vote For Yourself Rainbow Dream Ticket, has admitted being a member of the neo-Nazi group in the past and has confirmed that he remains a member of Third Way, an organisation which critics accuse of being fascist. Jim Barbour, a Socialist Party candidate who is standing in Belfast's Laganbank, constituency said: "I am demanding that the Vote for Yourself Rainbow Dream Ticket immediately withdraw their endorsement of David Kerr so that the people of East Antrim are aware that they are being asked to vote for a fascist." http://www.geocities.com/socialistparty/Election/Election2005.htm   (10509 words)      Young Conservatives Online - Speech, ALEC Conference, Seattle, July 31st 2004 The European project, and the European institutions, are run by a political élite who are hooked on Jean Monet's fifty-year-old dream of a united Europe, but are increasingly out of touch with the opinions and aspirations of ordinary people. The fact is that Members of the European parliament, although voted into office, are in a vital sense self-selected. In the European elections in June, parties opposed to EU integration made great strides. http://www.yconservatives.com/calvert-96b.html   (10509 words)      Newshound: Daily Northern Ireland news catalog - Irish News article Mr Morgan had been seen as a rising star in the SDLP, having been lord mayor of Belfast and the party's candidate in the 2003 European Election. Three other candidates are also standing in the Westminster poll – Marjorie Hawkins (Alliance), Marcella Delaney (Workers Party) and Lynda Gilby (Vote for Yourself Rainbow Dream Ticket) – but are unlikely to have a significant impact on the overall result. The religious breakdown of the constituency stood at 51.86% Protestant and 44.93% Catholic in the last census. http://www.nuzhound.com/articles/irish_news/arts2005/apr23_North_Belfast__BMcCaffrey.php   (10509 words)      ifa - Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen - Germany Today for Junior Journalists from the USA - Melissa R. Marshbanks Maybe if the European Union was creating policies and social programs, the United States would have to compete. Expansion is a fundamental of what is known as the American dream. So as the European Union continues to expand, it is interesting to see what it does to the countries it includes and the countries it leaves out. http://www.ifa.de/journal/rep2001_marshbanks.htm   (10509 words)      Charter 88 E-Citizen UKIP aren't big on electoral reform, despite the obvious advantages PR has given them in the European elections has granted them over FPTP, but candidacies such as this, in which seven out of eight UKIP supporters are effectively disenfranchised by their own party surely suggest that reform is needed. The last issue of E-Citizen reported on Birmingham councilor John Hemming's appeal for a judicial review to improve the postal vote system. There were fears that this may have forced the election to be postponed, but the Government has promised to bolster efforts to ensure that postal voting is secure. http://charter88.org.uk/publications/citizen/eCitizen2005/E-Citizen2204.html   (10509 words)      The Great Deception The Secret History of the European Union by Christopher Booker and Richard North. From the early 1920s, when the blueprint for the European Union was first conceived by a British civil servant, this meticulously documented account takes the story right up to current moves to give Europe a political constitution, already planned 60 years ago to be the "crowning dream" of the whole project. READ CREC'S HTML VERSION of the European Constitution! Eight Questions and their Answers on the proposed European Constitution. http://www.european-referendum.org.uk/purchase-book.html   (1084 words)      EUROPEAN UNION TARTAN peans, saw their dream of European unity realised in 1957. The cloth is an authentic Scottish Tartan for all Europeans, registered by the Scottish Tartan Society, the United Kingdom Patent Office, the President of the European Union and the Commissioners in Brussels. On the left hand sleeve of the jacket a small velcro patch shows the fifteen stars that represent the countries in the European Union, leaving ample space to incorporate further enlargment sometime in the first decade of the year 2000. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/CChalmers   (630 words)      Encyclopedia: Wimbledon (UK Parliament constituency) Vote For Yourself Rainbow Dream Ticket is a United Kingdom Political party which advocates the abolition of parliament in favour of devolution to city states and decision-making by referendum. The United Kingdom Independence Party (commonly known as UKIP) is a Eurosceptic political party that aims at British withdrawal from the European Union. http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Wimbledon-%28UK-Parliament-constituency%29   (630 words)      The Chronicle: 12/08/2000: The Renaissance of Anti-Intellectualism That Bush fils, country-club Republican, could gain stature (and keep a straight face) in his presidential campaign for proposing an "education presidency" and denouncing an "education recession" tells us something about the closing of the American mind that Allan Bloom did not dream of. Todd Gitlin is a professor of culture, journalism, and sociology at New York University, and the author of The Sixties and The Twilight of Common Dreams. Even into the Johnson administration, the White House ceremonially invited intellectuals and high artists to visit, culminating in the public-relations disaster of a White House festival of the arts, in 1965, that was boycotted by some writers and artists while others circulated an antiwar petition at the event. http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i15/15b00701.htm   (2686 words)      ARAB EUROPEAN LEAGUE SABRA AND SHATILLA COMMITTEE CALL FOR THE MARCH FOR JUSTICE Sunday 16th of SEPTEMBER 2001 IN BRUSSELS ARAB EUROPEAN LEAGUE SABRA AND SHATILLA COMMITTEE CALL FOR THE MARCH FOR JUSTICE Sunday 16th of SEPTEMBER 2001 IN BRUSSELS This year we will be commemorating the massacre differently, the bitterness that we felt every year at this time since 1982 will be replaced by a ray of light, finally justice is not an absurd dream anymore, the wheel might be turning. The Arab European League (AEL) and the Sabra and Shatilla Committee (SSC) invite you to participate in the peaceful march that they are organizing on Sunday the 16th of September in the European capital Brussels in memory of the victims of the Sabra and Shatilla massacres and the victims of the Israeli terror in general. http://www.bintjbeil.com/an/010907_brussels.html   (420 words)      AM - Ambitious expansion for European Union LINDA MOTTRAM: The European Union has invited 10 new countries to join the current 15 member states in 2004, in the biggest and most ambitious expansion yet undertaken by the EU; and the decision has been hailed as the start of the final stage of reconciliation and healing after decades of Cold War division. Thirteen years ago the Berlin Wall came down and the end of the 20th Century's great ideological division left the way open for what Pat Cox, the president of the European parliament described as "this final stage of an unparalled act of reconciliation, healing and opportunity". MARK BRISSENDEN: The European Union is still one of history's greatest experiments. http://www.abc.net.au/am/stories/s697936.htm   (420 words)      City Pages - No. 1? "The European Union leads the U.S. in...the number of science and engineering graduates; public research and development (RandD) expenditures; and new capital raised" (The European Dream, p.70). "In a recent survey of the world's 50 best companies, conducted by Global Finance, all but one were European" (The European Dream, p.69). In the chemical industry, the European company BASF is the world's leader, and three of the top six players are European. http://citypages.com/databank/26/1264/article12985.asp   (1600 words)      The Austin Chronicle: Columns: Letters at 3AM • "The U.S. and South Africa are the only two developed countries in the world that do not provide health care for all their citizens" (The European Dream, p.80). In the 1990s, the U.S. average compensation growth rate grew only slightly, at an annual rate of about 0.1%" (The European Dream, p.39). Only four U.S. companies are on the list" (The European Dream, p.68). http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2005-01-21/cols_ventura.html   (1422 words)      The European Dream - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia According to Rifkin, the "European Dream", which champions communalism, sustainability, and human rights over property rights and radical individualism, is better-suited to 21st century challenges than the "American dream" of personal fortune, which may be obsolete. The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream is a book, by Jeremy Rifkin, published in September 2004. He argues that the European Union, which he describes as the first truly postmodern governing body, has the potential to become a world superpower. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_European_Dream   (1422 words)      America, Wake Up to the European Dream (washingtonpost.com) The American Dream depends on assimilation, but the European Dream is based on nations' preserving their cultural identity and coming together in a multicultural universe. The American Dream is wedded to love of country and patriotism; the European Dream is more cosmopolitan and outward-reaching. But the point is not whether the Europeans are living up to their dream. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11183-2004Oct30_2.html   (1422 words)      The European Dream The American Dream is fading and in its place a new more inclusive European vision of the future is on the rise, according to a leading US writer. The new "European Dream" is offering a political model for the future, which leading US author and social thinker Jeremy Rifkin says is quietly eclipsing the American Dream. Dreams require optimism - you cannot be a eurosceptic or a defeatist or a pessimist and have a European Dream -  dreams require hope and you have to take risks for a dream and you have to make sacrifices." http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/amsterdamforum/af041211   (1422 words)      Polity Book Details: European Dream But while the American Dream tires and languishes in the past, a new European Dream is being born. More cosmopolitan and less concerned with the brute exercise of power, the European Dream is better positioned to accommodate the many forces that are propelling us into a more interconnected and interdependent world. The British find themselves betwixt and between a fading American Dream and a newly emerging European Dream which is gaining the upper hand in our contemporary global age. http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=0745634249   (1422 words)      TCS: Tech Central Station - Mr. Rifkin's Pipe Dream In "The European Dream," Rifkin demonstrates that his ineptness extends to political science and economics. Stephen Jay Gould dismissed Rifkin's "Algeny" as "a cleverly constructed tract of anti-intellectual propaganda masquerading as scholarship," concluding that he had not "ever read a shoddier work." But then he had not read "The European Dream." He's at it again in a completely different realm in a new book, "The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream" (Tarcher/Penguin, 435 pages, $25.95). http://www.techcentralstation.com/092704B.html   (970 words)      The Commons Blog: Rifkin's European Dream It "made the individual the master of his (sic) fate" whereas Europeans recognize that this "no longer works" in "an increasingly interdependent world." The European dream has "humbled" American companies (but his examples are all based on government regulatory actions, not on competition with European companies). What Rifkin doesn't say is that the American dream is driven by the private sector, while his European dream is driven by government. Rifkin's criticisms of the American dream -- the large numbers of people in prison, high health care costs, and growing income disparity between rich and poor -- are arguably the result not of private action but of government action. http://www.commonsblog.org/archives/000225.php   (970 words)      THE EUROPEAN DREAM We should not forget that the European Dream is – to distressed (ambitious or simply clever) European nations and ethnic groups – what the American Dream was to distressed (ambitious, clever…) European and other individuals. A clear European perspective, including EU membership - provided that Turkey fulfills all the necessary criteria - is of strategic significance for a wider European future, for its long-term security. The important message of the enlargement is that the European Union is open for new members and growing. http://www.sigov.si/cgi-bin/spl/mzz/govori/04042802.html   (970 words)      THE R Picture Sleeves and Single & Album Covers - Page 27 MARK KNOPFLER The Ragpickers Dream (2002 European strictly limited edition 12-track double LP, numbered picture sleeve + picture inners with lyrics) - The Ragpickers Dream - European - CD ALBUM- Promo more of this title MARK KNOPFLER The Ragpicker's Dream (Scarce 2002 US 12-track Warner individually watermarked promo CD-R acetate, custom printed disc is security barcoded and personalised, custom track listing sleeve) - http://eil.com/shop/extsearch.asp?DiscTitle=the-r&page=27   (1451 words)      Amazon.ca: Books: European Dream Homes Based on the title, I was expecting a book full of some "Dream" ideas of features that modern European architects were incorporating into their designs. Unique designs with distinctive flair, European Dream Homes, Second Edition features homes that combine modern floor plans with a wide range of exteriors that exude Old World charm. Additional written criteria includes a few brief paragraphs written by each architect espousing the unique European features of the "American" architect's design. http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931131058   (1451 words)      Nice Dream If You Can Live It It's a shame Rifkin fails to fully address this debate, because otherwise The European Dream is a fascinating study of the differences between American and European psyches. Everything in the European dream world may not be realistic. The utopia in question is today's European Union, or at least the world the EU is working to build. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_37/b3899028_mz005.htm   (1073 words)      Must Listen Radio Show-No More American Dream : AZ IMC Thanks, as usual, for your responses to this week's Amsterdam Forum topic: Europe as a beacon for the world, eclipsing the American Dream, with leading US social thinker Jeremy Rifkin, author of 'The European Dream'. 30 Minute Audio Story:Europe as a beacon for the world, eclipsing the American Dream, with leading US social thinker Jeremy Rifkin, author of 'The European Dream'. "If you ask an American what is the American Dream, they will say so I can get ahead in the world. http://arizona.indymedia.org/mail.php?id=23789   (337 words)      The Globalist Global Politics -- The American Dream Vs. the European Dream The new European Dream is powerful because it dares to suggest a new history, with an attention to quality of life, sustainability, peace and harmony. The European Dream is more expansive and systemic in nature and therefore, more bound to the welfare of the planet. The American Dream is inseparable from the country’s religious heritage and deep spiritual faith. http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/printStoryId.aspx?StoryId=4498   (977 words)

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