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...ways for Europe's diverse inhabitants to get along. Rather than try to bolster our Christian credentials in response to fears that Islamists are intent on colonizing Europe, we should institutionalize inclusiveness for people of all backgrounds throughout the region. But try telling that to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, is planning to revive the European Constitution underpinned with a Berlin Declaration claiming that Europe is based on Christian values. Fortunately a Europe-wide collaboration of Christians, Muslims, humanists, academics, politicians, writers and ngos is proposing an alternative Brussels Declaration...
...Family members of the RAF's 34 victims, including Schleyer's widow, have joined conservative politicians in urging the President to reject Klar's application. Some want Mohnhaupt kept in jail, too. Markus Söder, general secretary of the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party to Angela Merkel's ruling Christian Democrats, said that releasing the prisoners would be a "slap in the face" for the victims and their relatives. A recent poll conducted by the Bonn-based firm Omniquest found 65% of Germans against Klar being granted early parole; the proportion rose to 73% among Germans aged...
...Indians present - this was the second year running that they provided a huge contingent, and threw some of the best parties, too - had the sort of confidence that comes from knowing that their domestic market is going to continue to grow. The European one won't. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in her second year already something of a Davos star, spoke of the end of a "Eurocentric" view of the world, but most leaders I talked to thought that European public opinion was still woefully ignorant of the ways in which the old Continent's influence may shrink...
...TIME: Foreign affairs closer to home must be causing you concern: Your party tore itself apart over the European Union, and now the nightmare is returning, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel trying to revive the EU constitution. David Cameron: It shouldn't be a difficult issue for our party because it's an issue on which the Conservative Party now has a settled view, which is that we want to be in the European Union, but we want a flexible, open, trading union and we are opposed to further integration of the European Union. And it's a position that...
...moment, these risks seem manageable. Central banks, especially in Europe, have been raising rates to head off inflation. And there are several initiatives underway between Europe and the U.S. that aim to counteract protectionist pressures at home and abroad. German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Washington this month to push a plan that would harmonize investment and trade rules across the Atlantic. And the European Union and the U.S. recently got back together in a new and perhaps final attempt to salvage the World Trade Organization's Doha Round of negotiations. "We are in the endgame," says Peter Mandelson...