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In the shadow of the wall

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - By Melita Richter Malabotta - Nov. 09 (Special Report) - research showed East Germans felt deprived of any role in the future development of society and felt they did not have any input on the level where things were actually being decided. This shaped their identity of being separate citizens; “Easterners” whose life-ethic and “nobility of thought” (10) had somehow been hampered by reunification.

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Missile Defense Could Be the Silver Bullet

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

sptimes.ru - By Dmitry Trenin - Nov. 08 (Opinion) - In the eyes of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the “resetting” of U.S.-Russian relations became a reality only six weeks ago, when U.S. President Barack Obama announced his decision to reconfigure U.S. missile defense plans for Europe. Putin called Obama’s step “courageous,” which, coming from him, is perhaps the highest form of personal approbation

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Europe's quiet leader

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Anne Applebaum - Nov. 02 (Opinion) - Angela Merkel quietly ascended to the position of German chancellor. Having run a low-profile, even boring, campaign last month did nothing to lessen her popularity. Her subtlety and the fact that she is female are much to her advantage. She has made great strides toward the strengthening of Germany without inciting fear or criticism the way powerful male leaders have in the past. She has faltered on economic and foreign policies, but should she tackle these issues and/or acquire a larger global role, she will doubtlessly do so politely and quietly, without being noticed.

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Europe's Verdict on the Georgia War

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Oct. 03 (Opinion) - Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed.

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How the Irish Can Save Civilization (Again)

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Brian M. Carney - Sep. 11 (Interview) - "[The European project] is not top-down, it's got to be bottom-up. And the European Union right now is top-down. It does not have the support of the mass of its people. It does not have their engagement. They don't even know what's going on. And it literally conducts its business behind closed doors, and that has to stop and it has to stop now."

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World Powers Are Likely to Complain That U.S. Climate Bill Is Not Enough - washingtonpost.com

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By David A. Fahrenthold - Jul. 07 (News Analysis) - At a pair of international summits dealing with climate change this week, President Obama will be able to point to something no previous president has: a House-approved bill that could cap U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. THIS STORY Critique of U.S. Action on Climate Expected at Summits G-8 Countries Say U.S. Hasn't Gone Far Enough on Climate Change Push and Pull in Senate May Recast Climate Bill But he will still hear the same criticism lobbed at his predecessors -- that America is not doing enough. In L'Aquila, Italy, where the Group of Eight world powers and a wider circle of 17 heavy-polluting nations plan to meet, environmental groups and European countries are likely to call the U.S. legislation insufficient.

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Iranian cleric: British Embassy staff to be tried - washingtonpost.com

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Lee Keath - Jul. 03 (Special Report) - A top Iranian cleric said Friday that some of the detained Iranian staffers of the British Embassy in Tehran will be put on trial, and he accused Britain of a role in instigating widespread protests that erupted over the country's disputed presidential election. The announcement by Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati alarmed European nations and fueled calls for tougher action against Tehran. Britain is pressing for members of the European Union to pull their ambassadors out of Tehran to protest the arrest of its embassy staffers last week - a step that the EU so far has hesitated to take.

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European leaders warn Iran regime over British arrests - Times Online

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Nico Hines, David Charter - Jul. 03 (News Report) - European leaders finally began to throw their weight behind Britain today after Iran announced that British embassy staff would be forced to stand trial in Tehran. In a co-ordinated diplomatic move, EU nations responded by simultaneously summoning Iranian ambassadors across Europe. They will be asked to explain the arrest of British diplomats for allegedly inciting the violence and demonstrations that greeted the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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Britain Asks Allies for Help on Employees Held in Iran - NYTimes.com

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Stephen Castle, Nazila Fathi - Jul. 03 (News Report) - STOCKHOLM — Britain continued to push other European countries on Thursday to take a tough stance against Iran for detaining at least one employee of the British Embassy in Tehran, but European Union diplomats meeting here were searching for other ways to resolve the standoff....The number of British Embassy staff members being held remained unclear on Thursday. Iranian state television said all but one of the nine were released. But Carl Bildt, the foreign minister of Sweden, which holds the European Union’s rotating presidency, said “more than one” remained in custody.

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BBC - Newsnight: Susan Watts: No noble gas from North Korea blast

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

bbc.co.uk - By Susan Watts - Jun. 11 (News Report) - But there was one thing everybody in the room wanted to know. Had the network of sensors picked up radionuclides from the North Korean explosion two weeks ago? Seismologists here today say they are comfortable that explosion was a nuclear test, but detecting radionuclide evidence in the form of radioactive gas is the "smoking gun". And the big news here is that they have not found that signal.

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North Korea Set for New Missile Launch. Are We Expecting a New Saddam?

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Martha Collins - Jun. 08 (News Analysis) - What is going on with these guys? They detonate a nuclear device. Days later they test fire two long range rockets. After South Korea joined the US sea initiative last week, the North declared that the 1953 armistice was void. Now they tell their merchant marine to avoid some Yellow Sea areas as they may test fire another rocket.

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Pro-internet piracy party on course for EU seats

Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Marcus Oscarsson - May. 22 (News Report) - The Pirate Party, a single-issue Swedish group that campaigns to encourage internet copyright infringement, is on course to win several seats in the European parliament. "The plan is Sweden, Europe, the world. In that order," said Christian Engstrom, the Pirate Party's top candidate. The Pirate Party received 8 per cent in the poll and if the trend continues it will take a number of seats in Brussels.

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In Europe, social safety net softens the slump - Europe- msnbc.com

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - By Jennifer Carlile - May. 07 (Special Report) - With its tidy villages, orderly cities and atmospheric scenery, there are few outward signs that the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, home to historic Heidelberg and the famed Black Forest, is a victim of the current economic crisis.

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Is the American dream a nightmare?

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Susan E. Reed - Apr. 23 (Opinion) - The hidden menace of homeownership. It was a startling and controversial conclusion. But now it is beginning to make more sense. It turns out that a high rate of homeownership just might be bad for the economy.Homeownership has been a long nurtured desire of many Americans. Public officials relaxed mortgage requirements 10 years ago because they wanted everyone to live the dream. It seemed to be great for the economy, until the crash last year.

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Turkey's scheming in Strasbourg shows it doesn't belong in the European Union.

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Christopher Hitchens - Apr. 21 (Opinion) - The most underreported story of the month must surely be the announcement by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner that he no longer supports the accession of Turkey as a full member of the European Union. His reasoning was very simple and intelligible, and it has huge implications for the Barack Obama "make nice" school of diplomacy.

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EU tightens bluefin tuna fishing rules

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AFP - Apr. 06 (News Report) - European Union countries adopted new rules Monday to help restore endangered bluefin tuna stocks in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, bringing the bloc into line with international standards. The rules introduce "significant cuts" in bluefin tun quotas by 2011 and shortens the period in which the species can be fished by four months. The season begins on April 15.

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Nato summit: The truth behind the troops heading to Afghanistan

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Michael Evans - Apr. 06 (News Analysis) - The great jumble sale of troop offers made by Nato countries at the summit in Strasbourg to provide security during the election period in Afghanistan was beginning to unravel over the weekend as military chiefs tried to add up the numbers pledged. President Barack Obama said he was satisfied that a total of 5,000 troops and trainers had been offered, although he made a point of saying he saw the offers as only a “down payment”, indicating he still wanted pledges of long-term troop deployments, not just temporary units for the election force. But there were no offers of extra permanent troops. Washington claimed the total of 5,000 extra military personnel that emerged from the final day of the two-day Nato summit consisted of 3,000 combat troops for the election, 1,400-2,000 from 11 countries to be formed into 70 operational mentoring liason teams to train the Afghan National Army and 300 paramilitary mentors and trainers, led by the French, to assist the Afghan National Police. The offers came at the last moment in the summit as a result of what David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, called “the Obama effect”. The real figure, however, according to initial military assessments, was somewhat lower, because some of the offers were “recycled” from previous announcements. Sources said the contributions from Germany and Italy had been announced weeks ago. Each had agreed to send another battalion of 500-600 to their bases in the north and west of Afghanistan respectively for the election period.

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Blair steps up fight to be crowned first 'President of EU'

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Jane Merrick - Apr. 05 (News Report) - Tony Blair has emerged as the leading candidate to become the first permanent president of the European Union after Gordon Brown gave his grudging blessing to the plan. The former prime minister has stepped up his campaign for the job, which he wants to use to build a bridge between Europe and the new Obama administration. His return to the global stage would be a shock to his critics over the Iraq war and dismay many in Europe. But The Independent on Sunday has learnt that Mr Brown has accepted that his old rival should be in pole position for the appointment, on the basis that Britain needs to have a key figure in the architecture of the "new world order".

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Italy offers banks a $15.5 billion lifeline

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Anna Momigliano - Mar. 17 (News Report) - In an effort to fight the credit crunch, the Italian government recently approved a $15.5 billion plan targeted at helping both small firms and banks.

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State intervention in the German economy

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Mar. 16 (Special Report) - FOR German leaders nowadays, Rüsselsheim is an obligatory destination. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the foreign minister who is campaigning to become chancellor in September, showed up last month. His mission: to reassure workers at Opel, an ailing carmaker based in Rüsselsheim, that the government will fight for their jobs.

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Iceland Picks the World's First Openly Gay PM

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Time - By Jonas Moody - Feb. 01 (News Report) - When Barack Obama was sworn in as the new U.S. President last week, Americans made much of the fact that he was the country's first black Commander in Chief. On Saturday, when Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir takes over as Prime Minister of the small (pop. 320,000) nation of Iceland, she will become the world's first openly gay female head of government — and Icelanders are hardly batting an eye.

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Governments across Europe tremble as effects of global recession prompt angry people to take to the streets

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Ian Traynor - Jan. 31 (News Report) - France paralysed by a wave of strike action, the boulevards of Paris resembling a debris-strewn battleﬁeld. The Hungarian currency sinks to its lowest level ever against the euro, as the unemployment ﬁgure rises. Greek farmers block the road into Bulgaria in protest at low prices for their produce. New ﬁgures from the biggest bank in the Baltic show that the three post-Soviet states there face the biggest recessions in Europe.

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Protesters bring down the government of Iceland

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Economist - Jan. 26 (News Analysis) - Events in Iceland may send a shiver through other parts of Europe where unpopular leaders worry about political instability. No other country’s economy has been battered quite as badly as Iceland’s by the financial crisis, but as the economic slump deepens elsewhere, popular anger rises. In parts of eastern Europe—notably in Latvia and Lithuania—demonstrators have taken to the streets recently and some protests have turned violent. In Greece, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Bulgaria financial anxiety has encouraged street protests too.

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Russia, Ukraine Trade Blame as Europe Sees No Gas

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Vladimir Isachenkov - Jan. 13 (News Report) - MOSCOW -- Russia and Ukraine hotly blamed each other Tuesday as Russia restarted natural gas supplies but little or no gas flowed toward Europe. EU officials criticized both nations for their intransigence and eastern European nations scrambled for a sixth day to find heat.

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EU redoubles efforts to restore flow of gas

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Financial Times - By Nikki Tait, Roman Olearchyk,Isabel Gorst - Jan. 10 (News Report) - The European Union resumed efforts last night to secure the restoration of Russian gas shipments via Ukraine to the EU after hopes of an early settlement to the crisis faded, leaving millions of consumers facing a fifth day of shortages.

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