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...Bosnia is long gone. In its place is a peacekeeping operation of 7,000 European troops under E.U. control. "The Balkans are divided into two groups: those who will become E.U. members soon and those who won't," says Gerald Knaus, head of the European Stability Initiative, a Berlin think tank. The prospect of membership "gives a big boost to reform. For Albania, Bosnia and Serbia, the incentive is much weaker as long as membership remains vague...
When President Bush meets German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in Mainz this week, it may not be a love fest. Washington was taken aback this month when a Schröder speech stated that NATO "is no longer the primary venue" for discussing transatlantic issues. TIME Berlin bureau chief Charles P. Wallace talked to Schröder about the uneasy alliance Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was just in Berlin, and there were many smiles. Relations between the U.S. and Germany seem to have improved. But there's still Iraq. Has anything really changed? You must not underestimate...
...budget carrier founded by Raymond C. Lee, 49, a property developer who is investing in the venture along with VTech Holdings chairman Allan Wong. Lee has a distinctive plan to compete with other upstarts like Tiger Airways in Singapore and AirAsia in Malaysia: fly to European cities--perhaps Berlin, Brussels, Milan, Vienna--where no other Asian airline goes direct. "Instead of trying to steal someone else's lunch, we're creating a market where a market does not even exist," says Lee. --By Nellie Huang/Hong Kong...
...furry folksman—who’s spent time in Greece, Berlin, Zimbabwe and Morocco, among other places, in between his education in high school and at NYU’s artsy Gallatin program, from which he recently graduated—is focusing on the short-term...
...follow in family tradition and become a doctor after receiving a medicine degree from the University of Greifswald in 1925, a desire to travel led him to abandon medicine, according to a Harvard News Office press release. He then completed a doctorate in Biology at the University of Berlin just 16 months later...