Tag: Angela Merkel

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Merkel and Sarkozy put on first road show of the new year No sign of crisis in Greece bottoming out yet Merkel and Sarkozy threaten to withhold Greece’s bailout money Tibetan monk’s body paraded

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Europe recoils as Germany takes charge * Record turnout in Egypt’s elections * Pakistan changes rules of engagement versus U.S. forces Europe recoils as Germany takes charge Angela Merkel, giving her ‘one Europe’

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Happy Thanksgiving * Germany’s bond auction called a ‘complete disaster’ as bond panic spreads * EU President Barroso makes strong pitch for ‘Stability Bonds’ * Merkel affirms her rejection of Eurobonds in budget

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Egypt’s military leader responds to mass protests * Massive protests continue in Egypt * Euro collapse now seems inevitable, as Franco-German rift grows * Another savior for Europe: The Federal Reserve * Wild-eyed

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Greece buckles to European demands and cancels referendum * Referendum call forces historic changes * Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s press conference * Following the script * Elements of the script * A little

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Wall Street stocks soar 3% on empty promise by Sarkozy/Merkel * Report: Merkel has concluded that Greek default is inevitable * With elections approaching, Egypt’s government in crisis over Sunday’s violence * Egypt’s

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Germany approves the expanded bailout fund * 10 reasons why the EFSF is not the Holy Grail * European financial inspectors audit Greece * Syrian regime supporters attack American ambassador * Terror plot

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Germany expected to approve more bailouts on Thursday * Greece’s Papandreou promises to “fight our way back to prosperity” * Israel’s Netanyahu approves peace talks while new settlements are announced * Syria’s regime

Conservatives in Germany are furious as Chancellor Angela Merkel commits the country to bailing out other countries in Europe who have been running up debts and living on borrowed money for years. Is this the beginning of Germany’s Tea….errr…Beer Party

European leaders have long expressed confidence that the US would find a resolution to its ongoing debt impasse. But now there is growing concern that it won’t, according to Spiegel. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble says, “Everyone in the US

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Merkel and Sarkozy agree on plan for Greece after seven hours Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, Europe’s odd couple, in Berlin Wednesday After seven hours of talks that ran late into Wednesday night between

Over the weekend, Der Spiegel quoted former German Chancellor as saying of the current Chancellor, Angela Merkel: “Die macht mir mein Europa kaputt!” — “She is destroying my Europe.” A highly emotional photo of Mitterand and Kohl at Verdun in

Friday was another one of those Alice in Wonderland days where all you can do is shake your head in disbelief at the absurd lengths to which desperate European politicians are going. Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy after Friday’s meeting

Europeans are coming around to the idea that a new bailout of Greece will only pile on more debt, only making the euro / Greece financial crisis worse. Greece’s problems are compounded by the weekend arrest of IMF chief Dominique

Germany’s reliably left of center Der Spiegel offers up an interview with German political scientist Herfried Munkler who criticizes America’s celebration that Osama Bin Laden has been killed. Munkler joins the chorus of criticism from the German Left direct at

Feuding European officials signed off on a bailout of Ireland’s banking system on Sunday night, but it failed to calm financial markets on Monday morning, according to EuroIntelligence. 10-year bond yields for Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Greece as of November

A new German political party, Die Freiheit (The Freedom), had its inaugural meeting on October 28 in Berlin. I was in town, so its leadership invited me to be the only non-member of the nascent party to witness and report

The BBC reports: Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have “utterly failed”, Chancellor Angela Merkel says. She said the so-called “multikulti” concept – where people would “live side-by-side” happily – did not work, and immigrants needed to do