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...among the big political groups - the conservatives, the liberals and the socialists - who rule largely by consensus. "This makes it difficult for people to see how their vote matters," says Karel Lannoo, CEO at the Centre for European Policy Studies think tank. "Since they do not do anything like elect a European government, they do not feel they can change anything...
Last fall, some of those same Western nations helped elect Youssef chairman of the International Monetary Fund's policymaking committee, giving him a powerful voice in determining the IMF's role in the global economic crisis. It's the first time a non-Westerner has held the job, and Boutros-Ghali knows he carries the developing world's expectations. His main task, he says, is to get the IMF to better understand its borrowers. "[I've] experienced the pointy end of IMF policies," he says. "I bring a view different from a G-7 Finance Minister. I am sensitive...
...published by the authorities in expurgated form this summer. Instead, the uncensored information reached the opposition Tory-supporting Daily Telegraph and its Sunday sister paper. The imbroglio piles on the discomfort for Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who already trails the Conservatives in public affection. A general election isn't due until the spring of 2010, but Tory leader David Cameron has called for an immediate poll. Voters "want to elect a new Parliament. Their view is that swapping one person in a funny black costume for another funny black costume is not actually going to make all the difference...
Since papal conclaves have a cutoff age of 80 and tend to elect Popes from their own number, Benedict is likely to be the last Pontiff who can say, "We remember," and mean it literally. As the church's center of gravity moves southward, he may also be one of the last European Popes, and Jewish relations tend to be low on the radar of African and South American bishops. (One of the latter recently said the Jews own the media.) When Benedict is gone, says Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, "not only may Judaism...
...under the framework of our constitution and which is based on three principles: no unification, no independence, and no use of force. By no unification I mean no unification talks with the mainland during my term. The second is no independence. Of course Taiwan has autonomy because we elect our own president, parliament and run our own business, but the independence I talk about is de jure independence. I won't do that, and we oppose the use of force...