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...seats won in May's general election can rev up momentum. But the way parliamentary constituencies are drawn, and the mechanics of the first-past-the-post voting system, mean the Tories have to outpoll Labour nationally by at least 10% to take a bare majority in Parliament. ? THEY HAVEN'T GOT THE VISION THING. Aside from turfing out Labour and hankering for smaller government and lower taxes, Tories don't know what to sell the voters. Labour has proclaimed tough positions on the Conservatives' natural issues of crime, immigration and terror, and has co-opted Tory ideas of using...
...street-fighting iconoclast who settled happily into a role at the peak of the German establishment, and whose international fame and personal popularity always seemed out of kilter with the modest size of his Green party, has retired from frontline politics. He left the Bundestag, the seat of parliament in central Berlin, with a wave at waiting reporters and a typically informal salutation: "Ciao, ragazzi." That exit marked the end not only of Fischer's ministerial career but of the government in which his party served as junior partners to the Social Democrats. "The red-green chapter which my generation...
...never the redistribution of wealth, but rather justice between the generations," says Renate Künast, outgoing Minister for Agriculture and Consumer Protection and Fischer's successor as co-leader of the Green parliamentary group. Matthias Berninger, 34, the co-leader of the Greens in the Hesse state parliament, says he fights with other leading party members "about how much debt the state should take on. We can't pass the burden to the next generation." It still seems likely that the next German government will be headed by someone who came of age in the tumultuous 1960s. But Merkel...
...credibility. The fine journalists and staff of your publication deserve better than to be tarnished by this association with genocide denial. As journalists and media professionals, you know that the Armenian genocide has been extensively researched by scholars around the world, and recognized by the United Nations, the European Parliament and parliaments in Europe and around the world. This year, as Armenians and all people of good conscience in Europe and around the world mark the 90th anniversary of this crime against humanity, Time magazine's decision to disseminate this hateful dvd insults the memory of its victims and offends...
...vote helping to end the insurgency. Many Sunni groups say the vote would be meaningless, since their community is being denied a fair chance to vote down the draft constitution - and they believed their suspicions were confirmed by Sunday's vote in the Shiite-led Iraqi parliament to rewrite the rules in a way that effectively made it impossible for Sunnis to defeat the constitution in the referendum. That change was hastily retracted, Monday, in the face of strong international pressure. But Sunni suspicions persist...