Word: joschka
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...JOSCHKA FISCHER by Charles Grant...
...left high school without passing exams and shunned university, but Joschka Fischer, Germany's Foreign Minister and a leader of its Green Party, has become one of the leading political thinkers in Europe. In the 1980s he convinced his party that it could not change the world unless it became more pragmatic and therefore electable. He has helped modernize German thinking on the use of force: without his personal intervention, the Bundestag would have voted to support neither NATO action against Serbia in 1999 nor the deployment of German troops to Afghanistan two years later. And his speech at Berlin...
...from the Green Line that has demarcated the two sides since a 1949 armistice. Israel says the fence must jut into Palestinian lands to ensure security; the barrier's route near Ben Gurion International Airport, for instance, is meant to prevent attacks on departing aircraft. But German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer summed up the E.U. view in a recent interview with al-Jazeera: "Every government has the duty to defend its population against terrorism. And if a fence or a wall is needed to do this, that's a decision of the national government. However, we criticize the route. This...
...Svensson because she was a symbol of the ruling Social Democratic Party, "which in the far right's eyes is responsible for the multicultural society in Sweden, such as bringing immigrants into the country." Last Friday some 1,300 people, including British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and Foreign Ministers Joschka Fischer of Germany and Dominique de Villepin of France, attended a solemn memorial service at Stockholm's City Hall. "Anna Lindh is no longer with us. That idea still feels so foreign, so difficult to accept," said Prime Minister Göran Persson. A week after the stabbing, the country...
After U.S. secretary of State Colin Powell spent a day in Berlin last week trying to patch up post-Iraq diplomatic damage, the question was clear: Does either side really want to make nice? Before Powell held talks with Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, he met briefly with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, with whom he was photographed shaking hands. Will the Chancellor enjoy the same photo op with President George W. Bush when the two attend summits in Russia and France in late May and early June? The two haven't spoken since November. The Germans have made it clear...