• Barack Obama to announce target in next three weeks • Figure to be provisional in nature, officials say The White House said today it would go to the Copenhagen climate change summit with a proposed target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions after facing international pressure to commit to stronger action on climate change. An administration official told reporters that President Barack...
GM has repaid a bridge loan for its Opel unit to the German government, Chancellor Angela Merkel said, adding the aid had been crucial to keep the German car maker afloat.
by Geoffrey Lean Suddenly—and just in the nick of time—next month’s Copenhagen’s conference is starting to take off. National leaders have rushed to say they are going, elevating it to the status of a major summit. More and more commitments to action are coming in, from both developed and developing countries. And there are signs that even the United States may put an, albeit...
"I told President (Barack) Obama, I told President (Nicolas) Sarkozy, I told (German) Chancellor Angela Merkel that we will not get good things out of Iran if we corner them. You need to create space to talk," Luis Inacio Lula da Silva said
Guido Westerwelle is currently visiting Israel for his first official trip as Foreign Minister. His last visit, in 2002, didn't go so well: Westerwelle's trip follows another he made to the region in May 2002 when he was criticized by top Israeli politicians for failing to condemn anti-Israeli comments by his FDP party deputy, Juergen Moellemann. Moellemann had sympathized openly with Palestinian...
Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman opened his mouth :- "We greatly regret the recent decision to allow the construction of new homes in East Jerusalem," spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm told reporters at a regular news conference. "Settlement building in East Jerusalem is a major stumbling block on the road towards sustainable progress in the Middle East peace process," he said, adding...
Investigation of the mechanism of decay reactions with single bond breaking and calculation of their velocity constants on the basis of quantum chemical and statistical methods - that's quite a complex topic to write about, isn't it? Well, someone wanted to write her doctoral dissertation about it, in the field of chemical physics, in 1986. Who? A certain Angela Merkel, whom some of you might also...
Germany: 'Integration contract' for immigrants Germany’s integration commissioner announced on Monday that the government plans to institute an integration contract for immigrants to promise their intent to become a contributing part of the country’s society. The new contract, a goal for the current legislative period, will elaborate on what kind of support immigrants can expect from Germany,...
LeftStreamed, November 13, 2009: Finance, Class and Politics in the European Economic Crisis: Was the German Election a Turning Point? As a result of the recent German elections, Conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was leading a coalition government with the social democratic SPD (Social Democratic Party) since 2005, will also lead Germany's next government, this time with support from the liberal...
I found this article on the New Statesman website today, written on Friday: http://www.newstatesman.com/2009/11/holocuast-memorial-easyjet-magazine. It's about how easyjet's inflight magazine published some photos of a fashion shoot taken in the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. The photos have now been withdrawn. I don't think I'd go as far as Denis MacShane MP, when he argued that, "This is further...
The German Chancellor has voiced her support for Serbia’s plans to apply for European Union membership despite disagreements over the status of Kosovo. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has pledged to support Serbia in its bid to apply for...
19 November 2009 10:44 AMHail to the Chief, if you can manage to say itI'll be penned in with the rest of the press corps tonight at the European Council building, waiting for Angela Merkel and the other leaders of the member states to choose the new president of the Council; well, actually just waiting for Merkel to choose. Nobody else matters as much.Meanwhile, here is a list of some of the
A panel of top German economists, which has slammed the country's huge public debt, says Chancellor Angela Merkel's new government should take back its "gift baskets" of tax relief, a German weekly reported. Merkel "promised us that the government would do everything so that our gloomy forecasts would not happen... They can therefore pack up again their beautiful gift baskets,"...
Berlin - The new German coalition government led by Chancellor Angela Merkel is in turmoil over the issue of state aid for Opel, while other EU states with Opel factories have pledged more than a billion euros (1.49 billion dollars), a magazine repor...
As a result of the recent German elections, Conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was leading a coalition government with the social democratic SPD since 2005, will also lead Germany's next government, this time with support from the liberal FDP.
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