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Will Germany Lead?

Scott Malcomson | Posted 08.11.2012 | World
Read More: Mario Monti, Eurozone, Nouriel Roubini, Eurobonds, Nicolas Berggruen Institute, Europe Crisis, Gerhard Schroeder, Mariano Rajoy, Doris Leuthard, Germany, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Angela Merkel, Nicolas Berggruen, Peter Sutherland, Niall Ferguson, Guy Verhofstadt, Alain Minc, Juan Luis Cebrian, Jens Weidmann, Robert Mundell, World News
Scott Malcomson

At the Council on the Future of Europe, the dominant note was of nervousness at the state of Spain's financial system, combined with resolve to rally German opinion behind greater fiscal coordination and debt mutualization.

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EU's Lucky Charm: Ireland Supports Lisbon Treaty - Now What?

Human Rights First | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Lisbon Treaty, European Union, Guy-Verhofstadt, Human Rights, Ireland, Eu, World News
Human Rights First

By Joelle Fiss Human RIghts First Pennoyer Fellow BRUSSELS, October 3, 2009 - "This is a day of celebration for Ireland and for Europe", chuckled for...

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The US Senate Apologized for Slavery. But We Ain't Gettin' 40 Acres and a Mule!

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Jews, Europe, President Obama, News, Andrea Merkel, Congo, Forty Acres and a Mule, Jew, Belgian Prime Minister, North America, Guy Verhofstadt, Apology for Slavery, Swahili, Elie Weisel, African Americans, Civil Rights Disaster, German Chancellor, Genocide, Germany, Patrice Lumumba, Slavery, Belgium, Politics, Rwanda Genocide, Holocaust, Congress, American Dream, Barack Obama, Japan, Reparations, Jim Crow, Cnn, Racism, African American, Slavery Apology, Black Folks, Japanese Internment Camps, Slaves, Wolf Blitzer, Buchenwald, Rwanda, Belgian, Maafa, Politics News
Yvonne R. Davis

We can all feel relieved there is an official acknowledgment that something terrible was done to black people. Yet the reality is way too much time has passed for this apology to really mean anything.

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