Turning to the right the Finland sends chills through the Euro area

People joked that look at Finnish policy was about as interesting as watching paint dry.

Up to now.

Then of the general elections last weekend, the nationalist and true Finn party populist from political obscurity after having campaigned largely on the evils of the European Union and of its bailout of the Greece and the Ireland. He claimed 39 seats in the Parliament of Finland - almost eight times the number won the elections in 2007 - and it is likely to become a partner in a coalition Government.

Elections have led the ruling centre party and left this small prosperous country reeling. Finns gather in bars and cafés are dissecting the race, trying to take the measure of what is called "protest votes" and what it may mean for their future.

The Finland is not alone. Parties Union and anti-European anti-immigration were rising in Sweden, Italy, Hungary and the Netherlands last year, and more may follow. It is a disturbing trend for supporters of the union and efforts to preserve the euro by offering loans of emergency for nations members the weaker and more coordinated budget and expenditure policies in countries that use it.

Financial rescue plan requires unanimous approval of all members of the euro area, and it is feared that if the Finland back others may follow.

"One of the dangers that if a country quite important as the Finland decides to withdraw, the mechanism of support package for the euro could unravel, said Fredrik Erixon, the Director of the European Centre of international political economy, in Brussels." There are opinions anti-European and parties not only in Finland, but across Europe, display of hostility to the use of taxpayers ' money to help neighbors in need. ?

The question hangs on the horse trade which began in the formation of a new coalition Government. Just as the true Finns and their jovial leader, Timo Soini, grow an antibailout agenda, Europe envisages other rescue plan - this time for the Portugal.

It is unlikely that the Finnish vote will be jostling or even delay the Portuguese package, although it could lead to certain times nervous. Usually, it takes approximately a month to build a coalition Government in Finland, and which is sometimes when political parties only are not as far as they do today.

This week, outgoing Prime Minister, Mari Kiviniemi, refused to submit the question of rescue, the Parliament by saying that it was again Government. At the same time, Olli Rehn, Commissioner for economic and monetary European Union Affairs, has been cited in the edition of the Thursday of the Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat as saying that the Finland had to take a position on Portuguese aid by 25 may at the latest.

The new Government should include the National Coalition of center-right party, the leftist Social Democratic Party and true Finns. The parties do not agree on issues such as the rescue plan, tax reform and the increase in the retirement age.

Mr Soini (pronounced knee, soy) has toned down his words in the last days, even if it is not known how far it will be compromised. He does not speak to the media except to the complaining about the coverage of his party. But during the campaign, Mr Soini - which is 48 and has been active in politics since he was 17 - repeatedly lashed out of the European Union. (He is fond of calling it "the heart of darkness".) A true democracy, he said, is "only possible in different States".

He also sold himself as a man of the people which is sensitive to the needs of the poor and working class at a time when the distance between the rich and the poor is growing and the Finland, like many other European countriesplans of austerity measures.

"Soini speaks a plain language with ordinary words," said city Pernaa, Director of the Centre for parliamentary studies at the University of Turku in Finland. "He told voters that they were wasting money paying for the debts of others.". Why they will pay for that when we need more doctors in small towns of Finland? ?

Perttu Pouttu, a former worker for a Helsinki energy company that responds to friends on most mornings Hakaniemi market square, said he had voted for the true Finns because the arguments of Mr Soini makes sense for him.

"Of course the rescue raises questions," he said. "We will communicate this money?". Where are the banks? It's their problem. ?

At the same time, Mr. Pouttu said he worried that the Finland had admitted too many refugees. "It does not affect me personally," he said. "But it bugs me that, by law, we have to give them apartments." When I took his retirement, nobody has given me an apartment. ?

The two issues - the European Union and immigration - are increasingly linked across Europe. "The draw overwhelming portions as the true Finns is the feeling among some Europeans, that they lose control of their destiny and that their nations would lose their identity," said Magali Balent, expert on European policy at the Robert Schuman Foundation in Paris.

But few analysts here believe that Mr Soini has any choice but to compromise on the rescue plan. Even if the Finland did not act, officials of the European Union stated that they could keep the rescue plan on the trail of complex technical manoeuvres.

Mr Rehn, Commissioner for economic and monetary European Union Affairs, encouraged the Finnish legislators to consider the interests of the country's long-term, taking into account of what might happen, say, when the bloc takes over farm subsidies.

In the European media, especially in Sweden, the true Finns came under fire as racist right. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alexander Stubb and other have defended Mr Soini of such charges, although the other members of his party were more radical positions on immigration.

"Timo Soini is in reality a very civilized guy," said Lasse Lehtinen, journalist and Social Democrat who is a former member of the European Parliament. "It reads many." "It think much".

Mr. Lehtinen, like others, said that Mr. Soini received in the last election of quiet sadness on many fronts.

"I know a lady who voted for the true Finns because she was taunted to see a ROM begging in the street," he said. "She said no one had been begging on the streets since the 1940s, and she did not like it.".

Suzanne Daley reported Helsinki and James Kanter Brussels.

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Palestinians: right to non-negotiable return - Yediot Aharonot

The peace plan proposed U.S. reports prompt various responses by the Palestinian leadership. While Fatah official Nabil Shaath, said right of return will not be delivered, spokesman for PA Obama disappointed himself has not approved plan officially

Palestinian leaders emphasized Thursday that they will not waive the right to return in peace negotiations with Israel following reports suggesting that the White House is working on the outline of a peace plan in the Middle East.

The Obama plan: the Palestinian State, without the right to return / Yitzhak BenhorinWhite House works on the peace agreement that focuses on Israel accepting the Palestinian State, waive right to return of the Palestinians. PM plans to present before own peace plan CongressAccording Kensset US for the New York Times, the key principles on which the plan will be based are: a Palestinian State without the right to return, Jerusalem as the capital of two States focuses on the needs of safety of Israel. "Oppose any peace plan American who wants that we waive one of our most basic rights and it is the right of return for refugees,", said the Member of Central Committee Nabil Shaath Fatah. He pointed out the lack of communication between Washington and the Palestinian Authority and deplored the postponement of the meeting of String Quartet. "Washington felt the Quartet statement would be in the interest of the Palestinians and has decided to postpone the session to an unknown date", he added.

Other Palestinian leaders say that the problem lies in form over content. "It is not an official plan of the Obama, it is nothing more than speculation," spokesman PA Ghassan Khatib said. "We want to see something official", he said. Khatib said that Obama itself should go out with the plan.

Clinton and Obama. "Plan must come to him directly" (Photo: Reuters)

Palestinian spokesman also welcomed the rally from the left to Tel - Aviv held Thursday in which the Israeli artists and academics called to welcome the Declaration of Palestinian independence. "This is certainly a positive and important initiative that we are pleased to see, but do not forget that the Government of Israel other things right - it is only what it wants."

During this time, appeal to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for Israel and the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table has not kindly achieved. Saeb Erekat responded in blaming Israel out of the impasse and said that the US administration must stop treating as if it were above the law.

Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the Palestinian Authority at the United Nations addressed to the Security Council recently and said that Israel had chosen to avoid consensus and works in violation of international law while undermining the two-State solution.

During the debate, France Ambassador Gerard Araud said that a number of European countries are considering to recognize a Palestinian State.

The Syrian authorities stop the Figure of the Opposition popular, thrown of emergency right - voice of America

VOA News, April 20, 2011 demonstrators holding banners during a demonstration the port Syrian town of Banias, April 19, 2011

The Syrian authorities arrested a hours of figure of popular opposition having passed a Bill lifting State of emergency almost 50 years.

Rights activists say that Mahmoud Issa was abducted from his home in the Centre of the city of Homs late Tuesday by the political security of the Syria services.

Earlier in the day, the Government promulgated a law putting an end to the State of emergency, dissolved a security court that tries to political prisoners and passed a law requiring a permit for demonstrations.

The US State Department spokesman, Mark Toner, says that Washington is concerned Syria may have replaced a restrictive law with another.? He urged Damascus to more broad democratic reform in place.

Despite the new legislation, thousands of demonstrators gathered in cities and towns across the Syria Tuesday to protest against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.? At least two people were killed in clashes in Homs where demonstrators held a sit-in in the main square of the city.

The Syrian authorities have said that their country is the target of a conspiracy. They accuse violence by gangs armed and infiltrated provided with the weapons of the Iraq and the Lebanon.

The Assad family held Syria since 1970, when the father of the current President, Hafez Al-Assad, became head of State. He died in 2000, leaving Bashar al-Assad to lead the country.

The Act prohibited emergency events, restricted media and allowed the eavesdropping.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP and Reuters.

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A troubled Tenure: in the school system of the city, hope the new Leader can steer right course

Dennis M. Walcott, the candidate to be the next Chancellor of city schools, projected an air of confidence Friday, ensuring the municipal Council that schools have been able hands, despite the projected thousands of teacher layoffs.

"It will certainly be setbacks along the way, the difficulties and challenges," said Mr. Walcott, but I am confident that by working together, we come out stronger on the other side. ?

But Mr. Walcott will be only to manage budget cuts. On several fronts, people inside and outside of the report of the Ministry of education, the school system was drifting.

It inherits a huge agency, the largest of the city, and some of his problems date back years. But tenure unstable, short of its predecessor, Cathleen P. Black, at worse, said observers from education.

"Any person working on a plan for the last months of two and a half years has no assurance that, it could never be done rather than having simply dust come together," said Joe Williams, Executive Director of Democrats for education reformwho works closely with schools and education officials. The "having no not a leader makes wonder why they display every day in this bureaucratic blob giant."

"That they are trying to change the world, and they cannot do so when there is zero direction vessel."

Two aides of higher education has complained that Ms. Black, the absence of a clear program from the top began to create inefficiencies in the Department. His predecessor, Joel i. Klein, loved make decisions fast and energetic. According to Ms. Black, proposals may wander through the layers of control: Ms. Black, his two powerful assistants and officials of the City Hall, including Mr. Walcott and another Deputy Mayor, Howard Wolfson.

In the confusion, several proposals have been delayed, including efforts to obtain grants for school improvement. Assistants speak on condition of anonymity because the Mayor requested that agents to past criticism of Ms. Black tenure. To obtain a response to it on Friday night for their remarks failed.

Some officials worried that the momentum of the reform programme of Mr. Klein, including her push to rid the system of teachers mid-March, began to falter. Without the presence of Eric Nadelstern, a Deputy Chancellor, who is retiring after the appointment of Ms. Black, the Department seemed more in more familiar with the needs of each school.

Ms. Black often deferred to Shael Polakow-Suransky, the academic Director and Sharon Greenberger, the Chief of operations, giving them power that education officials joke called "Chancellor", said the two aid.

Meetings have been fraught with manoeuvres of senior officials tried to move Ms. Black to their point of view, said wizards. Mr. Polakow-Suransky and Ms. Greenberger served as guards, decide which proposals to approve and which to scuttle.

Mr. Polakow-Suransky, acting Chancellor until Mr. Walcott receives a waiver, expressed his disagreement on Friday with those who complain that the Ministry had lost its moorings. "There were frustrating moments, and there have been ups and downs,", said Mr. Polakow-Suransky of recent months. There is also, he said, "real excitement and a sense of possibility."

"People are working hard on many different fronts," he continued. "The fact that Dennis has resumed, which will only add."

A school in limbo, the cobble Hill School of American Studies at Brooklyn, was supposed to be improved now. It is part of the program of President Obama turn around schools, and the city of New York is considered a national urban districts model. But when the examiners of the State is made in January, they stated that "the evidence of teaching and learning was not apparent in the majority of the classrooms.

The lack of progress in school is the result of many factors, but one is the slow pace of the city in the application of federal money shift and hiring personnel to operate.

"There is fighting every day," said Naya Hunt, 16, an 11th grader, the dismissal Friday. "" "". "It was a fight only today, before leaving school".

A man police said was not a student, was led handcuffed wrists shortly after. "It is crazy about it," she said.

While the State, city and union officials disagree on the cause of the slowdown, all agree that money did not start flowing in schools until January, too late to produce change.

"Some of the schools has decided, you know what?". "We're going it alone," said Michael Mulgrew, the President of the Federation of teachers. "No there was no support from the Ministry of education in these schools."

Juliet Linderman and Noah Rosenberg contributed reporting.

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