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...even if the image of European leaders jetting across the continent fades, there are more enduring travel idiosyncrasies in the E.U. The European Parliament, for example, is split between Brussels and Strasbourg. While the Lisbon and Brussels events are estimated to add between 10 and 15 extra tons of CO2 to the E.U.'s carbon footprint, around 20,000 tons are produced every year by the Parliament's commissioners, officials and aides journeys back and forth to Strasbourg...
...Addressing the Parliament in Strasbourg last month, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said France would never give up the monthly sessions in the city. This is despite the growing number of complaints from the E.U.'s 785 Parliament members and 4,000 staff who decamp at the cost of 12 million euros for each session. But here, as with the summit, national prestige continues to hold the upper hand over cost and climate concerns...
When guests charter the 183-ft. (56 m) sailing yacht Selene, for example, they are met by the captain, steward and seven other crew members, including the chef, Justin Arblaster. The world is his supermarket. Aged beef is flown in from England, truffles from Italy and foie gras from Strasbourg. "If the guests want Russian caviar, I can have it flown in to where we are by helicopter or seaplane," Arblaster says...
...March 20, the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights criticized Poland for having no effective legal framework for pregnant women to assert their right to abortion on medical grounds. It awarded 36-year old Alicja Tysiac 25,000 euros, or about $33,250, in damages after doctors refused to grant her permission to terminate her pregnancy despite serious risk to her eyesight. Tysiac, who suffers from severe myopia, became pregnant for the third time in 2000. Three doctors told her she could go blind if she gave birth but, contravening Polish law, refused to write her a certificate that...
...benevolent protection of the U.S. military since early 2003. With this ruling, Rajavi hopes, they and what she claims are their far more numerous supporters in Iran will be freed to answer a call from the homeland. "I say to the mullahs that they're finished," said Rajavi in Strasbourg. "A new era will open with the installation of liberty and democracy in Iran...