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Just weeks after hailing Obama's election, E.U. officials are now howling that his plans are putting a global economic recovery at risk. They want Obama to resist any retreat into protectionism, warning that it could turn the recession into a 1930s-style slump...
...leaders: they run counter to E.U. rules that ensure the free flow of goods, services and workers. Worse yet, notes U.K. Business Secretary Peter Mandelson, such moves risk beginning a chain reaction of protectionism that could make the economic slowdown even worse. "It would be a huge mistake to retreat from a policy where, within the rules, U.K. companies can operate in Europe and European companies can operate here," Mandelson said on Jan. 31. "Protectionism would be a surefire way of turning recession into depression...
...social issues such as gender equality, a robust welfare system and rights for the disabled and elderly. Fellow MP Ágúst Einarsson went as far as to call her "socialism incarnate." Firmly planted in left-of-center politics, the new Minister reflects the nation's postmeltdown retreat from the right, as demonstrated in recent polling data...
...them to their home pulpit. Wolpert of Crookston's First Presbyterian entertains even more radical visions. The average age of his Sunday flock is 63 (Carol Porter is now a member). But he is also founder of the Minnesota Institute of Contemplation and Healing, an energy-independent, nationally ambitious retreat center offering ancient disciplines such as icon and walking meditations and surrounded by a storybook hayfield with a view of the Red Lake River. Wolpert sees God's future here as extending beyond small-town churchgoers to northern Minnesota's more ethnically varied newcomers and even to religious tourists. "This...
...Despite the severity of the downturn - and the size of today's protest - French leaders aren't beating a retreat. Heading into the strikes, Sarkozy sounded a conciliatory tone, assuring French citizens that he understood their problems, but also stressing that France can't "halt its reform movement...