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...payoffs haven't been bad. During the August crisis in the Caucasus, Chancellor Angela Merkel sounded as if she might welcome Georgia and the Ukraine into NATO soon. No more; it is back to a pretty clear nein for a very long time. To Moscow, Berlin now offers "as close and reliable a partnership as possible...
...Obama can already count on a European political climate that has changed dramatically since the 2003 invasion of Iraq: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown all enjoy comfortable working relationships with the outgoing Bush Administration. (See pictures of Iraq's revival...
...while Brown has already said he backs any effort to get other NATO countries to share the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) burden in Afghanistan, Merkel last week insisted she would not send German troops in the volatile southern region. And Sarkozy has already hinted that his forces are already stretched due to ongoing missions in Chad, Kosovo, Congo and Lebanon...
Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to mark the anniversary by speaking alongside the head of Germany's Jewish community, Charlotte Knobloch, at the Ryke Street synagogue in the old eastern part of Berlin. Although the synagogue was torched on Kristallnacht (or Reichspogromnacht, as some German Jews now prefer to call it), its structure remained intact, and it was reopened last year for the first time since World War II. The ceremony will include the screening of a documentary on the infamous night and another on the Jewish community in Germany today. (See pictures of Kristallnacht...
...schools on Jewish life and on Israel, and to establish a panel of experts tasked with issuing a regular report on anti-Semitism in the country. "With this crime, Germany robbed itself of one of its major cultural roots," Hans-Peter Uhl, a member of parliament with Chancellor Merkel's Christian Democratic Union told the legislature. He said the revival of Jewish life that has taken place in recent years, thanks mainly to immigration from the Soviet Union, "borders on a miracle." (See pictures of East Germany making light of its dark past...