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...mooning of George W. Bush by global-warming protesters in Goteborg, Sweden, last week was only the latest and most vulgar example of the criticism that has been heaped on the President since March, when he declared that the Kyoto agreement on climate change was dead. The Administration, otherwise disciplined and well scripted in its first few months, has been left dazed and confused by the outcry at home and especially abroad. It tried to recover its footing by touting a myriad of other worthy environmental initiatives. But the problem hasn't gone away. The President needs to come...
This just in: Last week George W. Bush was the most popular political leader in Europe. That, at least, is one interpretation of the demonstrations in the Swedish town of Goteborg. On the day of Bush's visit for a summit meeting with the leaders of the 15 nations in the European Union, the most significant street protest was a mass mooning of the President. But once Bush had left for Warsaw, and then for a meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the mood turned ugly. The now familiar demonstrators against globalization tossed cobblestones at police, burned...
...their own territory--Bush was the first sitting U.S. President ever to visit Sweden--the Europeans set the agenda, which consisted mainly of beating up on Bush for his decision to junk the Kyoto accord. Climate change dominated both the formal meeting and the dinner that evening in Goteborg's town hall. Bush, said an Administration official, found the dinner a "long two hours...
...strengths. He is better in less formal settings that let him put his personality to work. And though there are moments on the world stage when charm can carry the day, they aren't likely to occur in Brussels or, for that matter, at the European Union conference in Goteborg, Sweden, which Bush will visit Thursday. These are places where talking policy is a treasured and complex art. There and elsewhere on his trip, Bush will face European Union members who are ideologically alien to him (11 of 15 E.U. governments are center-left) and wary of his reputation...
...that the chopping happens close to home, which reduces outsourcing costs and keeps jobs nearby. Volvo, based in Goteborg, Sweden, has turned an old shipyard in the nearby town of Arendal into a supplier village, where nine supplier partners construct components and subsystems and line them up in the proper order before shipping them to the assembly plant. It all happens in double-quick time. "We give them eight days' notice to get the quantities together, and then we give them four hours' notice to do the sequencing," Franzen says...