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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
EU LEADERS remain deadlocked over the nomination of the first full-time president of the European Council as former Soviet bloc states resist a “coronation” of Belgian prime minister Herman Van Rompuy.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Brussels - Anyone who wants to become the president of the European Union should first face an interview with the bloc's national leaders, Polish diplomats said Tuesday. The EU is expected to choose its first ever president and foreign policy directo...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Occupied, and suppressed, Poland's 20th century history was as bleak as its future now seems rosy. Why then have so many young Poles left never to return since 2004? Sitting with her daughter and grand-daughter in one of Warsaw's poshest coffee shops, Tereza Sawerska dwells on Poland's 20th century. In the 1940s as a child she trudged the country lanes with her father in search of a bit of bread,...
Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago today is rightly being celebrated in Germany as a momentous historical event that led to a huge increase in human freedom around the world. The wall was indeed the most visible physical symbol of an inhumane system that divided Germany and Europe, holding captive hundreds of [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Warsaw - Poland signed a deal Monday to sell surplus greenhouse gas emission rights to Spain in what is the first move for Warsaw of its kind. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that the deal would give Warsaw funds for investments in lowering ca...
Liberty Scott (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
German newsmagazine Der Spiegel notes that US President Barack Obama shelved apparent plans to attend the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, of which Toby Harnden at the Daily Telegraph said: Perhaps Obama felt that celebrating the role of the United States in bringing down the wall would be a bit triumphalist and not quite in keeping with his wish to present America as a declining world...
Collecting my Thoughts (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sure, he doesn't want to celebrate the fall of communism in Europe, flying a big RED flag that his socialist, statist policies won't work. There's a bigger reason, however. HIS EGO! He'd have to share the stage! Have you seen the photos!!! OMG! Every important president, chancellor, premier and former- anybody of Western Civilization is there. UK Premier Gordon Brown French President Nicholas Sarkozy...
Bacon's Rebellion (Free subscription) | yesterday
T he Fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989 is an enormous happening worthy of celebration. Last night, I marked the event in New York by attending a special discussion by four U.S. foreign correspondents and a photographer who recorded the historic day in person. The reporters, including those from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek, described the sense of surprise, the total joy...
"Reflections of an ethical business hack" (Free subscription) | yesterday
In a week’s time I’ll be in Bulgaria speaking at a conference on corporate responsibility. Then just over a week later in Budapest at a similar gig. It seems an appropriate time, exactly twenty years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union, to consider what role responsible business can play in what we now call Central and Eastern Europe. In the last couple of years I’ve...
Chasing Evil (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kristallnacht remembered in Berlin: "Source: [b]Morning Star[/b][b]Kristallnacht remembered in BerlinMonday 09 November 2009[/b]As German Chancellor Angela Merkel, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachov and ex-Polish president Lech Walesa celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, more subdued tributes we..."Read the full article at the link.
Freedom's Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Here is video of the celebration in Berlin, Germany today marking the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down on November 9, 1989. A series of 1,000 "domino-like" wall sections were set up for the observance, and Poland's solidarity leader Lech Walesa was asked to do the honors of pushing the first section over which started the domino effect as they all fell.
My World Earth (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Fallen dominos along the former border in front of the Brandenburg Gate are seen after they were made to fall in a symbolic act in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009, during the commemorations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov.9, 1989. Giant dominos placed along the former border in front of the Brandenburg Gate fall in a symbolic act in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Nov....
Truthdig (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
To mark the 20th anniversary of the reunification of Germany, a group of world leaders from past and present—including Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa, Nicolas Sarkozy and Hillary Rodham Clinton—joined German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday for a stroll through the Brandenberg Gate, which formerly stood between East and West Berlin. —KA The New York Times: The anniversary has provided...
Big Lizards (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
What is missing from these two articles? The first is from the Associated Press, commemorating the anniversary of the historic day when the Berlin wall came a-tumblin' down: Chancellor Angela Merkel and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev crossed a former fortified border on Monday to cheers of "Gorby! Gorby!" as a throng of grateful Germans recalled the night 20 years ago that the Berlin...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
• Berlin marks 20th anniversary of wall's tumbling • Angela Merkel joined by Mikhail Gorbachev Tens of thousands of people, including dissidents, songwriters, priests and political leaders who helped to engineer the collapse of communism in the former eastern bloc, braved a cold, persistent drizzle today to mark 20 years since the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the cold war. Germany's...
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