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...Despite losing the battle, those opposed to Turkey's membership may yet win the war. The likely next German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has long argued for something short of full membership for Turkey. And French president Jacques Chirac, who says he favors Turkish membership, has pressed through a constitutional amendment demanding a referendum in France to approve any new member of the EU. An editorial in Germany's centrist Sueddeutsche Zeitung sensed a whiff of hypocrisy in the pressure on Austria to kick the ball forward again. "The Austrian government deserves merit for speaking openly what a majority...
...Turkey's best-known business leaders. Opponents of accession are still in the minority in Turkey. In polls, between 60-70% of Turks believe Turkey would be better off in the E.U. But that number is dwindling, down at least 10% from just one year ago, according to the German Marshall Fund. Moreover, 30% of Turks now believe that their country will never join the club. The E.U. has not made the process of accession easy, demanding a range of reforms, some of which are deeply unpopular in Turkey - and not just with nationalists. These include loosening restrictions...
...tolerance is gravely strained by Stalin, who is trying to force the Tunshan and other Central Asian tribes into collective farms - and, as World War II erupts, into the Red Army. Kaja's charismatic father Ul'an decides to fight for his people's freedom by joining the invading German forces. He befriends a scholarly Wehrmacht officer, Günther Berger. Amid the inferno of Stalingrad and the coarser hell of a Soviet prison camp, Ul'an exacts a pledge from Berger that will alter Kaja's life completely. This consigns her, at age 9, to a new life amid...
...curatorial intern at the museum, M. Celka Straughn, organized the exhibit of German and Swiss painters and sculptors. Undergraduates involved in the project will be giving gallery talks. The exhibit highlights seven key pieces from the museum’s collection...
...autumn night in 1786, the legendary German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quietly steals out of Karlsbad on horseback...