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...despite the pledges, E.U. leaders still face some tough decisions on how to implement the agreed measures. Industries have complained that they will have to bear most of the burden, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned she will not sacrifice the German car industry on the altar of emissions cutting. A last-minute change to the summit conclusions said emission targets should be introduced so as to "avoid excessive costs for member states," potentially opening the door to backsliding. Mahi Sideridou, a Greenpeace policy analyst, said the agreement had offered little beyond "some misplaced protectionist language to appease heavy...
...Democratic politics provides a challenge to Tussaud's. Angela Merkel, elected German Chancellor in 2005, has been sculpted, but her figure is briefly on loan to Berlin. Her predecessor, Gerhard Schroeder, remains by popular demand. John Howard and Vladimir Putin make an unlikely, and dated, duo. Their successors, Kevin Rudd and Dmitri Medvedev, have not yet been commissioned, but are "very much on our radar," says Lovett...
...Liechtenstein, the enemy is clear. When German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined the debate recently, the local newspaper, Liechtensteiner Vaterland, said she was "using Liechtenstein like a whetstone to sharpen her claws." Günther Fritz, Vaterland's editor-in-chief, says, "We're not a very patriotic people, but under pressure from Germany, everyone is banding together." Bankgeheimnis - bank secrecy - may not stir the human soul the way liberté, egalité, fraternité does, but it seems to work in Liechtenstein...
...Angela Y.H. Lin ’02, who—like Riverton, was an economics concentrator with a passion for the arts—only came across Harvardwood, still an e-mail list at this point, her senior year...
...coalition government led by center-right Chancellor Angela Merkel, the scandal could hardly have come at a worse time. Germany is already engaged in a deepening ideological battle over the bloated salaries of its top corporate executives. Socialists are calling for a statutory minimum wage, a move most conservatives oppose, as well as for a law to limit executive salaries. Many voters are angry that ordinary workers have to carry the burden of Germany's economic reforms while executives give themselves huge pay increases, and they have been flocking to an opposition party called the Left, an amalgam...