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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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It is a new European Union development programme, which will fund tripartite projects based in Asia countries.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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The European Union Telecommunications Council voted on 27 June on proposals by the UK to modify the new telecommunications directive to require that telecommunications providers retain information on their users for law enforcement purposes.
New regulation in Europe requires that all European Union listed companies comply with international accounting standards from 1 January 2005.
New legislation in the European Union mandates that producers of electrical and electronic equipment be physically and financially liable for their products at the end of their consumer life.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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New Zealand has a unique European / South Pacific culture combining the colonial heritage of the early settlers with the ancient polynesian culture of the Maori.
Ever since the Europeans started colonising what today is referred to as the Third World, local populations have been displaced by the white man's quest for land for new settlements and agriculture and the search for minerals and other natural resources.
Papua New Guinea (PNG) was pratically the last civilisation to be explored by Europeans in the nineteenth century and today still many areas have little or no contact with the West.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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It was the very first European settlement in New Zealand, but only as the French sailed into the harbour in 1840 did they learn that the British had taken possession of the country mere days earlier.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Finally, Europeans in the process of colonization created a new history for the societies they subjugated; also, the very act of colonization provided legitimacy for those communities in the post WWII international order.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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While Tony Blair is calling on Britons to have more respect for the work of scientists, a recent survey has revealed that over half of Europeans lack faith in scientific research and do not believe that new technologies can solve problems such as diseases and famine.
The new study found Africans have 20 percent more diversity in DNA in their cell nuclei than Europeans and Asians.
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David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
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The first Europeans brought with them new diseases (measles, smallpox, the common cold) that killed thousands of these indigenous people.
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