Word: joschka
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...days later, on Martin Luther King Day, Powell--at de Villepin's request--attended a Security Council session that was to debate terrorism. The meeting was relatively uneventful, though Joschka Fischer, Germany's Foreign Minister, said a military strike against Iraq would make fighting terrorism more difficult. But at the press conference afterward, de Villepin dropped his bomb. France, he said, thought that "nothing justifies envisaging military action." It was the plainest signal possible that so long as the inspectors were getting cooperation from Saddam, Paris would not support...
...deploy audio-visual aids to make his case. U.S. officials at the UN also hinted that next week's session could even render redundant the planned February 14 report-back by UN arms inspectors. The attendance of the special session by foreign ministers Dominique de Villepin of France and Joschka Fischer of Germany underscore the seriousness of the discussion...
...Dear Joschka," began the letter Colin Powell recently sent to German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer. "Although the U.S. is not a member of the E.U. ... " And that's where the U.S. Secretary of State's missive might as well have ended. Powell went on to write that the European Union must "act boldly to expand the zone of stability and prosperity" by offering Turkey "a firm date" for starting talks on its accession to the E.U. While some European leaders - notably Tony Blair, Silvio Berlusconi, José María Aznar and Costas Simitis - agreed in principle with Powell...
Like Abbott and Costello's "Who's on first?" routine, the coalition agreement unveiled last week by German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Green partner Joschka Fischer seems confused about basic issues, and destined to end where it began. But economists aren't laughing, because the E.U.'s biggest economy is also among its sickest: 3.94 million unemployed workers are draining government coffers, the GDP will grow only .5-.75% this year and the budget deficit will bust the E.U.'s 3% limit. Business leaders blame high taxes, expensive welfare programs and rigid labor laws, but the government seems...
...reportedly compared Bush's tactics to Hitler's. One reason for the Bushies' anger, Administration sources claim, is that Schroder left a clear impression with Bush that he would eventually support the U.S. against Iraq. "Schroder looked him in the eye and lied," says one Bush aide. Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer seems eager to repair the breach. He says he wants to schedule a trip to the U.S. and hopes a "window of opportunity" will open up in the next few weeks, but that sounds a lot like he has not been invited...