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...European nations have a deserved reputation as the world's greenest, with firm carbon caps and a commitment to renewable energy. But that's not the whole story. Eastern European nations, like summit host Poland, remain dependent on heavy industries and polluting power like coal. And lately, given the severe economic downturn, Europe has edged away from its leadership on climate change. On Dec. 11, even as the U.N. summit has begun to heat up, the E.U. will meet in Brussels to vote on its ambitious 20-20-20 plan, which aims to reduce greenhouse gases continent-wide...
...only German intelligent enough to explain the necessity of the Iraq war to the incredulous rest of the country. Nice to see he has overcome the embarrassment and feels strong enough to get it all wrong about Europe's "swooning" response to, and expectations of, Obama. Obama's Western European supporters deserved a more empathetic article than Joffe's complacent little outcry. Josef Werker, KREFELD, GERMANY
...sort out its own taxation system so that citizens are not tempted into tax avoidance. Surely, the practice of some of the biggest U.S. banks of selling junk papers to unsuspecting clients, many of whom are pensioners, is far more despicable. The U.S. authorities must be aware that European investors who have been cheated in this fashion might just return the favor by starting class-action suits against these banks. Then what? Peter Roost, BUERON, SWITZERLAND...
...When I was a history concentrator at Harvard three decades ago, modern European history ended in 1945. I once queried a professor about this odd truncation. He replied that Harvard historians “don’t teach current events...
...things that the editors have done here is that they put a variety of types of slavery,” he said. “The book covers from the stories of illegal child labor industry in Asia to those of victims of Eastern European sex slavery.” The work, he added, is a representation of a wide range of the enslaved peoples. “There are 27 million slaves in the world today. This is by far the biggest number of enslaved population in the entire human history,” said Bales...