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Vanlerberghe, Cyrille
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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
A difficult future for Gordon Brown
The newspaper Le Figaro sees even worse times ahead for the British prime minister: "Gordon Brown has little to celebrate on his first anniversary in Downing Street ... not even his most recent political victory. The ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon by the House of Lords last week may have brought him the congratulations of Nicolas Sarkozy, but it also raised the ire of the British, who wanted to express their views in a referendum. ... To a certain extent, he presented himself [earlier] as a sort of anti-Tony Blair. After the opportunism and the charm of New Labour, his calm, solemn attitude inspired admiration in the first crises he faced. ... The 'bad' Brown reared his head when he first hesitated then decided not to hold early elections at a time when the Conservatives were gaining new ground in the polls. ... The downturn predicted for the British economy, together with the considerable risk of a recession and high inflation, will certainly not help Brown regain popularity."
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Great Britain debates the implementation of sharia law
Cyrille Vanlerberghe, the daily's London correspondent, writes that the Archbishop's statement "wasn't a simple provocation. ... After his first declarations on BBC 4 in the early afternoon, the spiritual leader of 77 million Anglicans worldwide elaborately defined his ideas during a conference on civil and religious rights at the Royal Court of Justice in London. ... The Archbishop's statement is not a polemic in favour of the indiscriminate application of all aspects of Koranic law, but rather a complete and complex argument for a judicial system that recognises the religious particularities of a minority. ... The theological positions taken by Rowan Williams were not understood and, more often than not, we retain only the provocative part of what he said."
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