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European Affairs

Dec 30, 2009: Angela Merkel’s ‘Wild Boys’
Comments: 0 | Categories: Europe & U.S. , European Affairs
“Seasoned German foreign policy experts, such as the head of the Bundestag's foreign affairs committee, Ruprecht Polenz, are beginning to worry about Chancellor Angela Merkel's ”wild boys,” reports the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (German Wave) on its an online news...

Dec 27, 2009: The French Government Must Get a Grip on Reality
Comments: 0 | Categories: European Affairs , Opinion & Analysis
“It seems that the targeting of Muslims and Islam has become a kind of national theatre in France,” asserts Palestinian-American journalist Ramzy Baroud, editor of Palestine Chronicle.com, in a post in the December 24-30, 2009 Al Ahram Weekly. “Unlike theatre,...

Nov 12, 2009: Is Turkey Disillusioned With Europe?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Europe & The Middle East , European Affairs
Daniel Steinvorth, writing from Istanbul, Turkey for the German magazine Der Spiegel, says in an article translated from German and posted November 13, 2009 at the English language Spiegel International Online: “As European opposition to EU membership for Turkey grows,...

Oct 23, 2009: Germany's Black Citizens
Comments: 0 | Categories: European Affairs
Recommended: Hannah Pilarcyzk's October 21, 2009, post in Spiegel Online International headlined "Journalist Goes Undercover to Discover Life as a Black Man in Germany." Also see "The Difficult Identities of Post-War Black Children of GIs." I found both articles fascinating.

Aug 19, 2007: Spain's Shrinking International Profile
Comments: 1 | Categories: European Affairs
'A decade of soaring economic growth and corporate expansion overseas has put Spain in the big leagues, but the country's political profile is shrinking under the leadership" of Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, "a man deeply preoccupied with...

Aug 19, 2007: Why is Turkey Still Begging for Full Membership In the EU?
Comments: 0 | Categories: European Affairs
In an informative, August 20, 2007, interview published in Today's Zaman, Haluk Kabaalioğlu, "The new president of the Economic Development Foundation (İKV), a nongovernmental organization representing the Turkish private sector's interests regarding the European Union," says "There is no such...

Aug 15, 2007: David Miliband Wants Foreign Policy Ideas
Comments: 0 | Categories: European Affairs
Pickled Politics, which bills itself as "current affairs for a progressive generation," reported August 14, 2007, that British Foreign Secretary David Miliband wants your foreign policy ideas." Presumably he is seeking them only from inhabitants from the United Kingdom. Even...

Jul 15, 2007: David Miliband, Please keep Blogging
Comments: 0 | Categories: European Affairs , U.S. Foreign Policy
I hope David Miliband's new position as Britain's Foreign Secretary doesn't keep him from blogging again. Before Prime Minister James Gordon Brown appointed him to his new position on June 28, 2007, Mr. Miliband was Secretary of State for Environment,...

Jul 12, 2007: FT.com Has Interview With United Kingdom's New Foreign Minister
Comments: 2 | Categories: European Affairs
Simon Collister over at the blog Simon Says has provided a link to what he calls "a good interview in the July 10, 2007, Financial Times with David Miliband, the United Kingdom's "new Foreign Minister. Even better," Mr. Collister says,...

Sep 8, 2006: Brown Becomes A Target In British Labour Party Civil War
Comments: 0 | Categories: European Affairs
The Times Online's Philip Webster and Roland Watson report September 9, 2004 British time that the British Labour party's "civil war intensified yesterday," September 8, 2006, " as MPs gave warning of attempts by hardline Blairites this weekend to “take...