Topic: EU - on May 5, 2010 at 2:39:00 PM CEST
Satellite photos catch Greek tax-evaders
The cheating is often quite bold. When tax authorities recently surveyed the returns of 150 doctors with offices in the trendy Athens neighborhood of Kolonaki, where Prada and Chanel stores can be found, more than half had claimed an income of less than $40,000. Thirty-four of them claimed less than $13,300, a figure that exempted them from paying any taxes at all.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on May 5, 2010 at 2:37:00 PM CEST
Italian police fine woman for wearing burqa in public
The growing European row over bans on Muslim veils spread to Italy yesterday after a Tunisian-born woman was fined for wearing a burqa, the first time such a penalty has been imposed in the country.
Amel Marmouri, 26, was stopped by carabinieri officers in a spot check outside a post office in Novara in northern Italy and given a 500 euro (£431) fine, payable within 90 days. She at first declined to lift her veil to be identified because the officers were male, but agreed when a municipal police patrol which included a woman officer was summoned.
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Topic: TV - on May 5, 2010 at 2:36:00 PM CEST
Mohammed-Karikaturist Westergaard wirft ZDF Selbstzensur vor
Begründung des ZDF: "Unterhaltungs-Talkshow keine geeignete Plattform für eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema"
Der durch seine Mohammed-Karikatur berühmt gewordene dänische Zeichner Kurt Westergaard wirft dem ZDF "Selbstzensur" vor. Der Karikaturist sagte am Montag in Dänemarks größter Zeitung "Jyllands-Posten" (Århus), der öffentlich-rechtliche deutsche Sender habe ein für die Markus-Lanz-Talkshow vereinbartes Interview ohne Angabe von Gründen abgesagt. "Ich hätte nicht gedacht, dass ein so großer Sender einknickt und Selbstzensur übt", sagte Westergaard.
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