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...three men are very pragmatic," says Cord Jakobeit, a political scientist at the University of Hamburg. "If a joint initiative makes them look better on the domestic front, they will seize it." In the past, Germany and France only needed each other to look good. Monetary union and the euro itself are parade examples of big changes they led. But with enlargement, "they have lost this precious status," says Christoph Bertram, director of the Institute for International Politics and Security in Berlin. "The rest of the European Union no longer automatically regards their decisions as in the interest of Europe...
...vote for the racist, anti-immigration presidential candidate Jean-Marie LePen. And, it will hopefully stem the small numbers of Muslims frustrated enough to travel to the Middle East to train for Jihad. American dollar bills read, “In God We Trust,” but French Euro coins say “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité.” And French experience shows that fraternity develops best when education is kept thoroughly free of religious identifications and separations. Secularism is the fragile basis of national unity in France, and the country’s people...
...major priority is to make Greece a knowledge society. This means a huge transformation of our educational system. YOU BEGAN YOUR CAMPAIGN BY APOLOGIZING FOR THE SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT'S RECENT MISTAKES. WHY? I'm very proud of what the government has done. We focused on becoming part of the euro, developing infrastructure, strengthening the economy. However, there were other priorities that we did not address with the same vigor. What I'm saying now is, let's talk about fighting unemployment, fighting corruption and encouraging a participatory democracy. IS ANTI-AMERICANISM STILL THRIVING IN GREECE? It has its peaks...
...could it have come to this? After all, Blair's Labour Party has been consistently ahead of the Tories for the last six years, which confounds the pattern of every British government since World War II and ordinarily would guarantee loyalty from his allies. The economy is outperforming the euro zone, and Blair can - and often does - boast of historically low unemployment. Even his tuition-fee bill is more generous to students from poorer backgrounds than the current system. And while Kelly's death was tragic, the evidence given to Hutton also shows he was no paragon...
...Foam Truths An Italian court ruled a bar illegally used the arrival of the euro to hike the price of its cappuccino, the first time authorities have punished artificial rises since the euro's 2002 birth...