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NEWS
31 May - 6 June, 2004
Questioning American hegemony:
is American power really as overwhelming as we have been led to believe,
and if not what are the consequences for international relations, asks
Stephen Gardner on nthposition.com.
Last
week 58 heads of state and government convened for the third
EU-Latin America Summit. David
Ferguson previewed
the summit for Deutsch Welle's Newslink
programme. For more
information, click here.
D-day tourism is getting
out of hand in the villages of Normandy that were the first to be liberated
as the Allies advanced in 1944. Emilie Boyer King reports
from Sainte-Mère-Eglise in advanced
of the D-day 60th anniversary celebration in June.
Cultural heritage in Bosnia
is being restored under foreign mandate, writes Mike Standaert
in an excerpt from an article for Maisonneuve.
The historic Russian town of Vyborg
lies close to the Finnish border and was formerly part of Finland. But
beneath the surface, unpleasant problems dwell, reports Veronica
Khokhlova for The
Morning News.
It's boomtime in the north east of England.
Katharina Strobel reports from Newcastle for Deutsche
Presse-Agentur (in German). Meanwhile, Glasgow
in Scotland is reinventing itself as a city of art (in
German for Spiegel
Online).
Gábor Szántó
is editor of the Hungarian Jewish cultural monthly Szombat
(Sabbath). Mike Standaert interviews him for Nextbook.
Hollow words and lost moral authority:
the case of the Bulgarian medics in Libya
serves to illustrate how America and Britain have lost their moral authority
as a result of events in Iraq, writes Stephen Gardner
for Newropeans
Magazine.
EDITORIAL
FRANCE GETS READY TO RELIVE D-DAY
PARIS
-- Sixty years after the allied forces set foot on the Normandy beaches,
France is gearing up for what could be the largest commemoration of the
D-day landings to date, writes Emilie
Boyer King. A version
of this article originally appeared in the South China Morning Post.
Seventeen
heads of state are expected to attend the official celebrations in Normandy
on June 6 -- the day allied forces first landed on the beaches sixty years
ago -- along with twenty thousand visitors.
British prime minister Tony Blair, Queen Elisabeth and US President George
Bush will be among the heads of state present. German Chancellor Gerhard
Schröder will also attend the ceremonies as the first German official
to be invited to France's D-day commemorations.
"This 60th anniversary will be the most important and the most memorable,"
said Philippe Metzger, spokesman for the official organising committee
of the D-day anniversary. "The German presence is a look towards
the future. We are closing a chapter of history and turning over a new
leaf."
Other celebrations will take place in Normandy on June 5 and 7, in Provence
on August 15 and in Paris on August 25.
A vast security operation has been put in place for the event including
the deployment of 30,000 military personnel throughout the year. The 60th
anniversary will cost the French Ministry of Defence between 25-30 million
euros alone, according to French veterans minister Hamlaoui Mekachera.
To read the article in full, click here.