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...third, a key interlocutor with countries like China, Russia, India and Brazil. And providing the right level of support in areas like Afghanistan, Yemen, in the Middle East. So a much more coherent voice, built up from the 27 member countries working together. We are the beginning of that. The treaty gives us the legal basis to do it, but the development will come in the next few years. I'm only into month three. I don't even have a full team yet. But as time goes on, we'll get better...
Europe is right to think big - both for its own sake and for that of others. Many in the rest of the world would welcome a stronger European voice. Capitals from Pretoria to Washington are constantly urging more from their European allies. As U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip H. Gordon said to the House Foreign Affairs Committee after the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty last year: "We hope E.U. member states will invest the post-Lisbon institutions with the authority and capacity to make concrete contributions to the pressing global challenges we face together...
...Party rally, with more spin than a busload of press secretaries. Washington feeds on the latest sensation. Remember that Obama kid from a while back? Switch hitter out of Chicago? All the righties complained that he favored the left side, while the lefties maintained that he leaned to the right. Strasburg is something that everyone can agree on, something new, a harbinger of warm evenings, popping cherry blossoms and blazing azaleas. A breath of fresh air, and not a moment too soon...
...increase fivefold in the next decade. By the end of this year, the number of wind turbines is expected to go up 150%, to nearly 2,600, from just over 1,000. "The new Greek government seems determined to push the green economy and is taking measures in the right direction," says George Peristeris, executive chairman of GEK TERNA Group, one of Greece's largest construction and energy companies. "But changes must be radical and drastic if Greece wants to achieve its goals...
...fundamental right to decide how we want to teach our children," says Uwe Romeike, an Evangelical Christian and a concert pianist who sold his treasured Steinway to help pay for the move...