Anything we can do to save a life is something we will support.

We are expecting that with this national boycott we will be able to further gain some respect, dignity, and improve the lot of the immigrant community.

Don't follow your dreams, lead them

in order to support a diplomatic, political solution that we very much hope will come alive in coming days at the meetings taking place.

Those organizations don't want the movement to radicalize. They don't want immigrants and the rest of society to come forth in a militant way and demand their rights.

The GDP growth differential probably widened to a full two percentage points last year, while final domestic demand expanded nearly four points faster on average than on the continent. While this gap might narrow somewhat in 2006, we think that the country will continue to outperform by a wide margin; our current GDP forecast for this year stands at 3.3% versus 2.1% for the euro area.