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...Indeed, one French executive of an international group, who asked not to be named because he formerly worked as a French diplomat, says the main problem with the refueling-plane bidding process was the Pentagon's pretense that the work was up for grabs in the first place. "All nations - France included - make bilateral procurement deals without tendering bids, so what's really annoying about this case is that EADS was led to think it had a chance when the work was going to go to Boeing no matter what happened," the executive says...
...Europe - where large swaths of the general public and political class are averse to military force and the risks that go with it - has gone from a blessing in the 20th century to an impediment to achieving real security and lasting peace in the 21st." Plenty of European diplomats would agree with him. After the speech one diplomat spoke of an "inertia" among Europeans when confronted with novel threats. "We have to explain to our own public opinion," he said, "the world we live in." (Read: "What is Robert Gates Really Fighting...
...economy worth possibly as much as 25% of the country's output. The method proposed: incentives that encourage Greeks, who for decades have paid for services in cash, to ask for receipts, to pressure service providers to report the income. "That's a huge cultural change," reports an American diplomat posted in Athens...
Tell me about the part you wrote for Ralph Fiennes. It was a late addition to what was basically the final draft, because we needed him to trigger the financing because of his stature and name recognition. I wrote a part where he plays a diplomat, and he hated it and told me as much, in a very nice way - that there was no way he was going to do that part. The film literally stopped being feasible at that moment. He liked the rest of the movie, but that didn't do me any good, because he wasn...
...world's nuclear standoff with Iran is ratcheting ever upward. On Feb. 8, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (no diplomat he) matter-of-factly announced that Iran would soon begin enriching uranium for use in a "medical reactor." That means China will have to answer the central question that confronts it, which was embedded within Yang's diplo-speak: What actually is China's long-term interest in Iran? (See the top 10 Ahmadinejad-isms...