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...common foreign policy, then it may never learn its true name. Like any battered family, Europe has learned how to hide behind half-truth and euphemism. It's a crucial survival skill. On Saturday Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Tony Blair - in Berlin for their first meeting since Europe's dramatic split earlier this year over the war in Iraq - tried to present a common front, but didn't quite pull it off. "We all want to see a stable Iraq," said Blair, struggling to put the best face on things. "We all know...
...Iraq (New Europe) and prodding the U.S. toward greater international cooperation (Old Europe). It isn't easy, but a united Europe would have an even harder time getting both things done. Even so, an eerie sense of déjà vu marks the aftermath of the Berlin Summit. With a new wave of anti-French anger rising in the U.S., Chirac and Schröder are preparing for private meetings in New York this week with George W. Bush. Reports from Washington suggest that the Bush Administration still hopes to bust up the Franco-German entente by pulling...
...last week found that 62% of French citizens surveyed would support their troops being sent to Iraq; 44% of Germans questioned would support a deployment of German soldiers. Nothing of the kind will happen, though, without delicate negotiations to calibrate a level of American control acceptable to Paris and Berlin. But in the meantime, some help is on the way. This week, some 10,000 soldiers from more than 20 countries - many of them in "new Europe," that loose amalgam of young, hungry, former Soviet-bloc states planning to join the E.U., and those in the West who are uncomfortable...
...inch up. GfK, a firm that tracks consumer trends, said its index of consumption rose from 4.2 in July to 4.5 in August, signalling that Germans are expected to spend more. "The digital sector is booming," says Marcus Neuhaus, manager of a ProMarkt electronics and appliance chain store on Berlin's trendy Kurfürstendamm. According to Neuhaus, sales of high-end TVs costing between €4,000 and €7,000 are up 15-20% this year. Digital cameras, laptops and even €800 espresso machines are selling fast. "Price is a secondary consideration," Neuhaus says. "People want...
...work. Chris Rennart, an unemployed 18-year-old who left school two years ago, says demand is ratcheting up to get work. "There's a lot of pressure to find a job," he says. "What will people do - sleep in the street?" Kevin Mantik, 22, an unemployed carpenter in Berlin, says the government is pressing him to move to the western city of Dortmund because there is a job there for him. "I will go but I'll have to leave my family and friends behind," Mantik says. If he doesn't go, he'll lose all his jobless benefits...