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Investigators say the murder suspect, a Dutch Moroccan named Mohammed Bouyeri, was a peripheral member of a radical Islamic group referred to as the Hofstad Network, which is linked to terrorist gangs in Spain and Belgium. A dozen suspected members have since been arrested in the Netherlands, where the death of van Gogh, who often slurred Muslims with unprintable epithets, has forced a tolerant country to rethink its freedoms. --By Andrea Gerlin. With reporting by Lauren Comiteau and Abi Daruvalla
...fertility crisis has reached such a dire pass that politicians are beginning to speak out. In a letter to their E.U. colleagues last month, French President Jacques Chirac, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Prime Ministers José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of Spain and Göran Persson of Sweden urged the Union to "take new action to sustain Europe's demography and better reconcile professional, personal and family life with the aim of permitting couples to have as many babies as they want." Ron Lesthaeghe, a demographer at the Free University of Brussels (V.U.B.), is happy...
...says. The Catholic Church played a role in that change. In the 1970s and '80s, it decided that having children outside of marriage was a lesser evil than abortion. "Instead of berating women, they became very supportive of unmarried mothers," Fahey says. Low fertility rates in Italy and Spain, also 1.29, spring from high youth unemployment, the prevalence of short-term work contracts, a chronic shortage of affordable housing for young people - and a bias in the workplace against women who interrupt their careers to have kids. Barbara Cavuto, 35, a Rome manager at an employment services company...
...Manuel Barroso's recast team, a new embarrassment emerged: Frenchman Jacques Barrot, the new Commissioner for Transport, was found guilty in 2000 of "abuse of confidence" in connection with a party funding scandal. Barrot was pardoned by French President Jacques Chirac and his conviction was expunged. Another Roundup SPAIN Police arrested 19 suspected members of the Basque terrorist group ETA in raids in the north of the country. ETA sent a message to a Basque radio station threatening further violence against the armed forces, police and civilians working for them...
...associations around Europe, including groups in Denmark, the Netherlands and Poland, to form a Continental lobby for large families. It plans to take its case to Brussels, hoping the E.U. will set European-wide standards to protect the rights of fruitful families. José Román Losana heads Spain's big family federation, which was founded in 1967 when the fascist government was actively encouraging population growth. Now Spain stands alongside Italy at the bottom of the European charts with a fertility rate of around 1.3. Losana has not only been pushing public officials but has also started...