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...Elliott overlooked one crucial point in summing up Blair's legacy: his lack of enthusiasm for a unified Europe. Blair adhered to the conservative ideal of splendid isolation, obstructing constructive ideas for bringing European countries together. His position helped create a Europe in crisis, searching for its identity as the constitution was rejected. So while I am sad to see Blair go, I am sad mostly for what he could have been: a founding father of a secular, democratic and prosperous union of European peoples. It was not to be. Steve Maertens, Ostend, Belgium...
...Baltic seaside resort of Heiligendamm in eastern Germany on June 6-8 for their annual summit, they will be visiting a part of the world where eight of nine countries are growing faster than the E.U. average; where several, including Latvia, which last year expanded 11.9%, are topping the European table; and where trade is expected to soar 50% by 2020. The port at Hamburg, just west of Heiligendamm, has seen a 40% increase in cargo shipped through the Baltic Sea in each of the past three years. As host of the summit, Germany has proposed a comprehensive agenda...
...compelling vision of what industries might take over where oil leaves off. There is the additional economic burden of importing nearly all of the country's food from Europe. Entrepreneurial spirit has all but evaporated: while rich Gabonese may fund new businesses, most are set up and run by Europeans. And the nation is afflicted by a widespread sense of moral degeneration - from bureaucratic corruption to petty theft to sexual violence. "The lack of standards shown by Gabon's leadership has generated a complete immorality in the country," says a European economist in Gabon. "That's the real curse...
...seen by some as too closely identified with the Bush Administration, having served in it from its start through summer of 2006. Less controversial alternatives were available, such as Commerce Secretary Carlos Guiterrez and Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt, who would probably have been acceptable to most of the European and Asian countries who get an informal chop on the choice. But Zoellick was more qualified than either...
...encouraged self-censorship. And even media owners soft on Chavez admit that the constant pro-government trailers and late-night slandering of the opposition on the main state-run channel, Venezolana de Television, is little more than propaganda. The international response hasn't been favorable either, as the European Union and the U.S. Senate have expressed concern...