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2009-06-18 … upgrade relations with the EU would also have been a factor). It remains to be seen whether or not the Israeli government can remain united behind the PM's peace plans, and he may have to rely on the main opposition's qualified support in the future to keep on track. In Luxembourg, the Israeli Foreign …
2009-03-30 … means pessimists outnumber optimists. Businesses said they will cut spending next fiscal year as the global collapse in demand erodes earnings. Prime Minister Taro Aso is preparing a stimulus package that may be twice as big as the 10 trillion yen ($104 billion) already pledged to revive an economy facing …
2009-03-13 … for recession-hit French carmakers to operate plants in places like the Czech Republic instead of creating jobs at home. That broadside led Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, the first head of an ex-Soviet bloc state to hold the EU presidency, to convene the summit to demonstrate European unity against …
2009-02-28 … erupted in the capital, Vilnius. Declining Polls Two months after the government assumed power and introduced austerity measures, support for the Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius's Homeland Union fell to 11.6 percent in January from 21 percent the previous month, a survey by Vilmorus for Lietuvos Rytas …
2009-02-21 … to strikes in Britain and France. Last month, the government of Iceland, whose economy is expected to contract 10 percent this year, collapsed and the prime minister moved up national elections after weeks of protests by Icelanders angered by soaring unemployment and rising prices. Just last week, the new United …
2009-02-13 … chair away from a man who was standing on it to test out what it felt like to have a noose around his neck. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and Prime Minister Aso Taro are trying to assert that the problem is global, a once-in-a-century event. But the pattern of fallout varies among low toxic-asset …
2009-01-19 … under the mounting pressure to join the bailout approach to the 'crisis', announcing a €50 billion 'stimulus package' which Gordon Brown the UK Prime Minister, himself an avid spender of other people's money, praised. Brown's praise comes after months of pressure on Germany. Quite why Brown felt the need …
2008-12-30 … up for $78 billion of Kremlin loans to survive the credit squeeze as about $110 billion of foreign loans fall due in 2009. It is anticipated that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will use the opportunity to claw back some element of government ownership and control of the nation's biggest companies. Latin …
2008-12-16 … between Britain and Germany as to the appropriate structure and targeting of an economic stimulus package became more public this week. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown seeming to become ever more overbearing towards Angela Merkel and the German finance team. We wonder why Brown is so keen to push this …
2008-12-09 … in China at the weekend "for talks on growing commerce between the two nations and the response to turmoil in global economies". Canada Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in a cynical move to prevent being ousted by opposition parties, has suspended parliament until January 26th. The sheer cynicism of …
2008-12-02 … of the law of England that it affords equal security and protection to the high and low, the rich and poor'. That last sentence quoting an English Prime Minister of 200 years ago might just as well have been made today for the same mendacity walks the corridors of power today as walked it then. The Parliament …
2008-10-28 … the minds of powerful men for tens if not hundreds of years, a system designed to accrue immeasurable wealth into a few, select hands? The British Prime Minister continues:- Today, the same sort of visionary internationalism is needed to resolve the crises and challenges... The old postwar international …
2009-05-28 Thanks to the intense rivalry between President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga, small tribes in Kenya feel left out as government and private companies fill their ranks with Kikuyus and Luos in a bid to have a …
2009-04-25 … ended with total paralysis in Parliament as House Speaker Kenneth Marende attempted to save face by promising to work with President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga in getting a solution to the impasse. Outside Parliament, Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka was vowing to stick to the fight. Kalonzo said …
2008-10-28 … and Sweden €117 billion to meet all manner of 'crisis' needs. While, at the EU summit, the chairman of euro group finance ministers, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, said there was no question of any pan-European economic support programme or fiscal stimulus, which would breach EU budget …
2009-04-14 … Co-operation between Obama and Kibaki will not be taken well by the Luo ethnic group where Obama’s father came from and which also happens to be Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s ethnicity. Kibaki comes from the Kikuyu ethnic group and the rivalry between the two men has resulted in ethnic tension between the …
2009-04-07 Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s toilet story has not only stunned many but served to undermine the personality of a man who, only a year ago, was regarded as an …
2009-04-05 … by Kenya’s Grand Coalition government collapsed in chaos on Saturday, further vindicating a widespread perception that President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga are hopeless failures. Ironically, the retreat at the Kilaguni Lodge in the vast Tsavo National Park was meant to prove to the entire …
2009-03-13 … Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka also rapped the media saying it is “sensationalising” issues rather than focusing on development matters.” Prime Minister Raila Odinga joined the fray saying that the Giant Coalition government was alive and kicking. “We are working and those who think the Government is …
2009-02-22 … a tiny spark, especially in Nairobi, could result in massive protests that could topple the country’s present leadership. President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga are painfully waking up to the reality that their power duopoly has produced the most unpopular government in collective memory. Not …
2009-02-08 … to feed the starving. To worsen matters, shortages in maize are caused by devious deals by Kenya’s ruling elite. President Mwai Kibaki’s associates, Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s family, Agriculture Minister William Ruto and legislators across political parties have been implicated in buying and holding large …
2009-01-18 … incompetent behavior. The people of Kenya are reeling in shock at a heartless political class that steals maize meant for 10 million hungry Kenyans. The Prime Minister’s family and other members of parliament have been implicated in the food looting spree. Unprecedented corruption has resulted in the emptying of …
2009-01-17 … by others, he has explored the idea of coalitions in the past, in one form or another. Of course, it would be a difficult political decision for the Prime Minister. However, by joining forces with a leader of a similar mindset, Harper could potentially ensure conservative majority governance for a specified …
2009-01-19 … only benefit it in the long run. Mr Clarke will also prove a worthy foe to the new Business Secretary, Lord Mandleson, brought back from Brussels by Prime Minister Brown in an effort to add some pizzazze to a supposedly ailing government. So the theme of Westminster politics at the moment seems to be ‘Back to …
2009-06-12 … with Iran. Time is of the essence as new developments indicate Iran is installing ever more centrifuges at its Natanz enriching facility and Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu has been rumored to allow Obama until the end of this calendar year to try the diplomatic approach before considering other …
2009-06-26 … official residence of the Russian president outside Moscow, Russia and Venezuela agreed to organize a new bilateral bank. In attendance were Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Venezuelan Executive Vice President and acting Minister of Defense Ramón Carrizález. The agreement was initialed by Russian Vice …
2009-06-04 … Margret Thatcher lost a leadership vote and was no longer Prime Minister. Those times are just as relevant today, as we are seeing resignations in Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Cabinet over his leadership. The question is whether he has the authority to lead the Labour Party into the next general election. …
2009-06-18 … this very script. There Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, agreed on promoting energy cooperation between their four “emerging economies.” “We are for strengthening the coordination and the …
2009-06-15 … liberal reformer that its candidate President Dmitry Medvedev has carefully cultivated and projected abroad. KGB-communist dictator Yuri Andropov, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's mentor, purused a similar ruse before he handed the prosecution of the Soviet strategic deception to his successor Mikhail …
2009-06-10 … Russia, India, and China. Both summits will be held in Yekaterinburg, near the Ural Mountains. Hu will confer with President Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the speakers of the State Duma and Federation Council, Boris Gryzlov and Sergei Mironov, respectively. No doubt the Korean …
2009-06-06 … of Transcaucasia." Thus, we see that the Soviets are still serious about confronting NATO, an organization against which President Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and Russia’s NATO envoy Dmitry Rogozin have directed much invective. The Russian Defense Ministry, consequently, plans to throw 40% …
2009-05-30 … with Pyongyang's saber rattling on the Korean Peninsula. Meanwhile, Israeli Islamists have got their headdress in a twist over the rumor that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to sanction the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple, historically located on the Temple Mount but long desecrated by the Dome …
2009-05-27 … buses will be used on suburban routes connecting Managua with regional cities. Incidentally, oligarch Deripaska is buddy buddies with Russian Prime Minister Putin. This is only the beginning of many bilateral projects planned by Managua and Moscow, as we have blogged previously. Others include replacing …
2009-05-22 … when US fighter jets intercepted Russian strategic bombers allegedly in violation of Icelandic and Norwegian airspace. That December Putin became prime minister of Russia for the first time and in March 2000 replaced Yeltsin as president. The online Spanish edition of Novosti and Cuba’s Prensa Latina admit …
2009-05-16 … which means an open communist is guiding the education of Russia's youth. That the putative rulers of Russia, President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, are in reality merely frontmen for the continuing Communist Party of the Soviet Union, otherwise known as the Communist Party of the …
2009-05-10 … Powers, then including the Soviet Union. The AFP news agency reports that: Thousands of soldiers marched past [President Dmitry] Medvedev and [Prime Minister Vladimir] Putin, before dozens of heavy tanks, including the main T-90 battle tank and the Sprut self-propelled anti-tank gun, thundered through Red …
2009-05-09 … and harboring fugitives from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and exiled political figures, like Thailand's left-populist former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Pictured above: Ortega speaks with fellow leftist US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Fifth Summit of the Americas in …
2009-04-28 … not to the Great Leader’s liking, so comments have now been disabled. I refer you to my earlier post about how paranoid and internet-illiterate our PM is…
2007-02-22 Here is a recent file picture of Prime Minister Howard meeting with Vice-President Cheney. In other news from Arrakis, the discoverer of the extra-solar planets HD 209458 b and HD 189733 b reports …
2007-02-05 … there must be a commitment of the country behind the program, based on a broad consensus. Stiglitz' advice to the IMF stands equally valid for the Prime Minister of Australia. The Howard policy in the Pacific has been hat imposing crude Washington Consensus one size fits all policies is the direct path to a …
2007-01-31 … finally be charged with something and whether the penalty for the charges, if they ever happen, will include 5 years plus It's just ridiculous for the prime minister to announce this as if Iraq were the cakewalk he was told it would be, although Cheney's desire to get away for a few days is understandable. PS …
2009-06-06 … is Brown not trying hard enough or are the failings that will probably lead Labour to defeat at the next election failings not exclusive to the Prime Minister but shared by the whole PLP? Even the Peers aren't immune from criticism however: Labour has 214 members of the House of Lords, yet Brown has had to …
2009-06-04 … noticed had she just gone. Blears, on the other hand, did herself no favours. By leaving 24 hours before polling day and just a short while before Prime Minister's Questions, her departure was nothing short of a political suicide attack, and her pledge of support for Labour in the elections rang hollow. It …
2007-12-16 … Workshop, a company running trainings for businesspeople, teachers and personal advisers. Paweł Moskalewicz: Jarosław Kaczyński (former Polish PM, current leader of the Law and Justice Party) feels offended with his party deputies, he wants to thorow them out of the party… Elżbieta Sołtys: …
2009-07-07 He was intending to reveal that he warned Prime Minister Tony Blair there were no weapons of mass destruction anywhere in Iraq weeks before the British and American invasion. He had several discussions …
2009-07-05 Uzi Mahnaimi in Tel Aviv and Sarah Baxter The head of Mossad, Israel’s overseas intelligence service, has assured Benjamin Netanyahu, its prime minister, that Saudi Arabia would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets flying over the kingdom during any future raid on Iran’s nuclear sites. Earlier this year …
2009-06-25 … targeted the funeral service for individuals killed in the first attack. Mehsud — who is suspected of involvement in the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and has a$5 million bounty on his head — reportedly paid a visit to the village where the funeral took place, but managed to dodge …
2009-06-25 … years as a gateway to regime change. Lest we forget that it was a violent CIA coup that led to the overthrow of the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 under Operation Ajax. The ousting was achieved by means of staged bombings and shootings which were blamed on the Iranian …
2009-06-22 … is perceived internationally arena as a moderate element…It is important to remember that he is the one who began Iran’s nuclear program when he was prime minister.” These are the words of Meir Dagan, the head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, testifying before a committee of the Israeli Knesset. Like …
2009-04-18 … Keith Moon of the Who for the occasion. The following day, John and Yoko took the peace campaign to Toronto, and met with Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada. On December 21, an ad with their “War is over” message appeared in the New York Times. The Bed-in was the high point of John Lennon and …
2008-02-28 … - Interest rates and economic stimulus buzz in Washington.- Israeli air strikes on Gaza Strip follow Palestinian rocket attacks.- Ousted Thai PM Thaksin returns from exile.- Pakistan coalition mulls effort to reinstate judges. TOP OF THE AGENDA: Interest Rates and Bailouts Following new signs …
2008-02-27 … operations in Kurdistan come as part of a stepped-up effort to root out Kurdish separatist elements who have sought shelter in Iraq. Turkey’s prime minister told lawmakers the operation was legitimate (Turkish Daily News) and that Turkey has “the right to defend itself, eliminate those that harm its …
2008-02-26 … by the military appointed Finance Minister Mahendra Chaudhry.Military commander Voreqe Bainimarama staged a coup in December 2006, overthrowing Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase. In a separate development last night Qarase was charged in court over alleged corruption charges.Earlier this week, after returning …
2008-02-25 … fleet. For background, see article • IRAN’S president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is set to visit Iraq on Sunday March 2nd, to hold talks with Iraq’s prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, and with the president, Jalal Talabani. It will be the first ever trip by an Iranian president to Iraq. There are no plans for …
2009-06-28 … Democrats So, in the last 20 years, has the Irish Republic had 7 changes of Government? Should we include changes of Taoiseach (Prime Minister) in that period when Fianna Fail changes leader (Charles Haughey to Albert Reynolds in February 1992 and Bertie Ahern to Brian Cowen in May 2008)? …
2008-02-21 … for Israel of the recent breach of the Egypt-Gaza border. UAE: A briefing from the Economist Intelligence Unit says a cabinet reshuffle by the UAE’s prime minister represents a serious blow social reform in the country.
2009-06-13 … would have to be replaced by the words "Secretary of State". Days after announcing that he was abolishing the post of Lord Chancellor, the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, realised it would be too much effort and Falconer became Lord Chancellor as well as being Constitutional Affairs Secretary. Another …
2009-06-09 It is scary to imagine what would have happened if Labour's Neil Kinnock had actually become Prime Minister. Not only would we have been lumbered with him, but with a Cabinet which would have included Gerald Kaufman. At the time of the June 1987 general …
2009-05-25 … is that the House of Commons could elect a Leader of the Commons, replacing the current practice of this being someone from the Cabinet, chosen by the Prime Minister. In several European nations, the practice is that the equivalent of the Speaker and the equivalent of the Leader are the same person. The European …
2009-05-17 A Belgian Roman Catholic priest, Michel Schooyans, has used a conference at the Vatican to say something about former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, which shows that the Catholics are now sharing concerns that evangelicals have about Blair. Schooyans says that Blair- through his …
2009-05-17 … polls for the European Parliament elections? There is one thing the Conservatives need to do, which is to have an election broadcast with former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, in. And they need to get Thatcher to say one simple phrase which will stop Conservatives switching to UKIP: You kip if you want …
2009-05-17 … became Prime Minister) did indeed follow a left-wing path, but this was a continuation with what it replaced. Edward Heath became the Conservative Prime Minister in June 1970. Now, to be fair, he was a conservative at the start, following some policies which would now be called Thatcherism. But, once economic …
2009-05-16 … Prime Minister? One qualification sometimes given is that a Prime Minister needs to be a good butcher. On those grounds, mercy is the last quality a Prime Minister shows to his political opponents- and towards his political friends. Reshuffles can vary from Harold Macmillan's "Night of the Long Knives" in July …
2008-02-20 … policy toward Pakistan. Prospects remain muddled on forming a government. Asif Ali Zardari, the leader of the PPP and widower of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, said he would attempt to form a coalition (Sify) with other opposition groups. Yet Dawn notes the failures of the PPP and PML-N to …
2009-06-04 … Vote Conservative, or the puppy gets it. Polls are open from 7am to 10pm. Vote Conservative; send a message to Gordon Brown, the inneffective Labour Prime Minister. After all, this is what Brown thinks of you, the British public:
2009-05-26 … for the meantime before I do, I'm gathering opinion, see what my loyal readers think. It's good to canvass opinions (unless you are the unelected Prime Minister of the UK, Gordon Brown). What do you reckon, people? Comments section is below if you want to say yay or nay, pass comment on this brilliant/daft …
2008-11-15 … movement lately, I’ve also been entranced by this year’s election in Canada. Of course, I was thrilled at the re-election of Conservative Party Prime Minister Stephen Harper. However, I was even more intrigued by the total collapse of the once-dominant Liberal Party of Canada. Once considered Canada’s …
2007-07-01 … was used in the 4/11 bombings in Spain, which were timed to coincide with that country's general elections and resulted in victory for anti-American Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero - who then pulled all Spanish troops out of Iraq. Mr. Brown, who is less cozy with the US than his predecessor, did not need an …
2007-03-14 … minority government will crumble by the end of this month, triggering new elections. Things up North are very close, and it's anyone's guess whether Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be able to hold off newly-minted Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion in the coming conflagration. Oh, and Tony Blair plans on …
2007-01-04 … this blog's Person of the Week award over the past year. Click on any name to read their Person of the Week Column Jan. 1-7: Ariel Sharon - Israeli Prime Minister Jan. 8-14: Samuel Alito - Supreme Court Nominee Jan. 15-21: Michelle Bachelet - Chilean President-Elect Jan. 22-29: Stephen Harper - Canadian Prime …
2008-02-16 … raided his home and offices in a 1 mln eur tax fraud investigation. The government meanwhile announced Merkel is scheduled to meet Liechtenstein Prime Minister Otmar Hassler on Feb 20 in Berlin and will discuss with him issues affecting both countries and Liechtenstein’s relations with the European Union, …
2008-11-26 … Liberal party. Finally, SAP prime ministers seemed to rule for a long time. Per Albin Hansson was leader of four governments; Tage Erlander was PM 1946-1969 and if Olof Palme had not been assassinated in 1986, he might have managed more than his seven years in power. Since then prime …
2008-11-09 … income. New Labour, having accepted the tenets of liberal economics, or ‘Thatcherism’, also seemed to like the company of rich people, or at least the PM did. While Brown’s style was more austere, he encouraged rich people to live in the UK, on tax lenient terms, on the assumption that they would be …
2008-10-21 … income. New Labour, having accepted the tenets of liberal economics, or ‘Thatcherism’, also seemed to like the company of rich people, or at least the PM did. While Brown’s style was more austere, he encouraged rich people to live in the UK, on tax lenient terms, on the assumption that they would be …
2007-10-15 … Naturally, he did not need one as Labour has one from the 2005 election, but this was one associated with Blair and Brown has never been endorsed as PM by the public-and has been criticized as such- so he is still, in a sense, in Blair’s political shadow,something he is bound to resent. …
2007-10-15 … occasion: the Granita restaurant in Blair’s home territory of Islington . No notes were kept but Brownites claim their man was promised a period as PM after Blair had served a reasonable term. During Tony’s time as PM it was agreed Brown would have virtual control over domestic policy. Precisely …
2006-12-05 … state comprising 96 metropolitan departments and 10 overseas. Corsica has its own elected legislative assembly. Government The president appoints the prime minister and the Council of Ministers (Cabinet) which is responsible to the bicameral parliament. The president is the most powerful politician in Western …
2006-10-25 … rejected by Syria. In 1932 Iraq was given its independence though the UK retained military bases. Faisal was succeeded by Ghazi but Rashid Ali as PM took the country close to Nazis Germany, possibly through opposition to Jewish settlement in Palestine. Britain feared he might cut off oil supplies …
2006-10-22 … decisions. Kim il Sung (1912-94) Kim belonged to a Soviet battalion comnprising exiles from China and Korea; he returned to NK in 1945 and became prime minister in 1948, of what soon became a Stalinist regime. He ruthlessly purged his opponents and invented a cult of personality, insisting on being called …
2006-10-12 Introduction Since David Cameron was elected leader of the Conservatives by a landslide last December, some have assumed he will be the next prime minister. After dominating politics for 18 years 1979-1997, the party had not looked like doing anything but losing once again in September 2005 when Labour …
2006-10-06 … clearly the subject of the succession was on the agenda. Supporters of Brown claim while Brown agreed not to stand Blair agreed that, if becoming PM, he would step down after a while to allow Brown, the then ‘senior partner’ in the young tyros’ friendship, to take his turn. Blair was brilliant as …
2009-07-06 … he says. As to the official information coming out of theatre, Grey recalls his experience in Iraq when soldiers were being briefed for the visit of the Prime Minister. They were choosing junior officers, certainly young soldiers, who would be in line to talk to the Prime Minister and what they should tell him. The …
2005-09-28 … Union. Obviously, this did not happen. Instead it was the day when an ambitious attempt was made to restart the debate on where Europe is heading. Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen published a not particularly offensive piece on the issue in Politiken in the morning, and Danish industy – including the …
2006-04-12 Also on the front page of BBC News today is a story about the Australian Prime Minister, John Howard. Now, anyone who's been reading my blog since the early days already knows what I think of Teflon John. To say he is my second most …
2006-04-10 … No results have bee confirmed as yet, but as the BBC reports: According to exit polls, centre-left leader Romano Prodi is on course to beat Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. A Nexus poll shown on Italian TV put Mr Prodi's coalition on 50-54% in both houses of parliament, with Mr Berlusconi's coalition …
2007-01-27 … of diplomacy centered on Kosovo and Serbia. On Tuesday evening I'm heading to Prishtina for some quick talks there during the Wednesday. It is primarily Prime Minister Ceku and the UN head Ruckers who have expressed a desire to see me, and the best way of making that happen was for me to come down to them for some …
2007-01-21 … to Paris on Thursday for the big international conference on Lebanon. It will be an impressive gathering also to show support for the position of Prime Minister Siniora, and I'm certain that the discussions in the corridors will be dominated by the broader Middle East issues. From there I'm continuing to …
2007-01-14 … challenges - Kosovo certainly among them - to be handled in the next few months. I will have talks - apart from with the President - also with Prime Minister Kostunica and Foreign Minister Draskovic. From Nis in Southern Serbia I'm flying tomorrow evening to Rome to have dinner with the European …
2008-12-05 … terms that the Dion-led coalition would have. If we're talking about what I personally want, of course I would like to see Harper out of the Prime Minister's chair. I think he's been a terrible prime minister on the democracy end of things, and his policy preferences are not mine, either. But this …
2008-12-03 … as possible (75%), and more than half think the Conservatives have not done a good job in dealing with the economic crisis (53%). The prospect of a Prime Minister Dion also enjoys considerably less support (25%) than the coalition itself (37%). Hmm. Also, I can't help but notice that the percentage of …
2008-11-29 From the Canadian Press: Prime Minister Stephen Harper has guaranteed the survival of his minority Conservative government for at least another week and is imploring Canadians to reject …
2008-11-14 … policies, because I'm still just fine with most of them. It's not even that I think there's anything wrong with the leader of the NDP running to be prime minister. It's that as long as the NDP was just trying to do the best job it could in opposition, I could pretend that I don't have issues with the core …
2008-12-14 … already started, and I’m afraid it won’t last just two quarters,” Deputy Economy Minister Andrei Klepach said, according to Russian news agencies. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who for months had boasted that Russia had enough financial buffers to remain resilient, has only recently begun preparing the …
2008-01-22 … possible contenders, the sclerotic process of the SPD continues to progress: Wolfgang Clement, who was deputy leader of the SPD until last October, Prime Minister of the former SPD-stronghold state of North-Rhine-Westpahlia and "Super-Minister" for Economics and Labour in Gerhard Schröder's cabinet, is the …
2009-07-07 … […] On July 4, just days before his social encyclical is set to be released, Pope Benedict XVI sent a letter regarding the upcoming G8 meeting to the Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi […] In his letter, he called for renewed international efforts to work together in order "to face current challenges" …
2009-06-24 … Berlusconi enjoyed a resounding victory in provincial elections after Italians overlooked the allegations of sleaze swirling around the Italian prime minister. KLAUS PLEDGES TO BE LAST TO SIGN LISBON TREATY […] Czech President Vaclav Klaus has pledged to be the last in the EU to sign the Lisbon Treaty, …
2009-06-13 … the West Bank. (And: US SCEPTICAL BIBI WILL BACK DOWN) RIGHT-WINGERS "WILL TOPPLE" BIBI IF HE BACKS 2-STATES […] Right-wing supporters of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu are threatening to bring down his government if he says "yes" to a Palestinian state in a speech on Sunday. CAN OBAMA SAVE …
2009-06-11 … Gaddafi, Libya's leader, has begun his first visit to Italy, his country's former colonial power, as the 2 nations seek to strengthen relations […] Prime Minister Berlusconi, who greeted Gaddafi on his arrival, has invited the Libyan leader to return to Italy next month for the Group of Eight summit. JEWS …
2009-05-27 … top generals and defense ministry officials have been sacked by the Kremlin […] MIDEAST/AFRICA/ASIA BIBI FAILS TO DELIVER FOR LONDON […] Israeli Prime Minister Netanhayu went to Washington with one overriding mission: to win concessions from the Obama Administration for London's planned military strikes …
2008-10-01 … region, is the commander of the Taliban in Pakistan and has been blamed by the Pakistani authorities for the assassination, last December, of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
2007-04-27 … night. On a 24-hour visit to Israel, Cohen, who served as defense chief under President Bill Clinton from 1996 until 2000, met on Thursday with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Amir Peretz and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni for talks on the looming Iranian nuclear threat and other regional …
2007-04-26 MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia's prime minister claimed victory Thursday over Islamic insurgents in Mogadishu, where nine days of battles using tanks and artillery left hundreds dead. Western …
2009-07-06 … and all that flowed from them were to ‘legally’ flourish. After all no one wished to end up like the late T.Dan Smith, or worry as a previous prime minister did, that their retirement would be spoilt by plod knocking on the door In the decision’s then taken to legalize theft, there are similarities with …
2009-07-03 … is an interview, first published in Der Spiegel with Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkeys new Foreign Minister, Before he was appointed he served as the Turkish prime minister’s foreign affairs advisor, with a special responsibility for Iran and the middle east. He played an important role in late December 2008, when he …
2009-07-01 … as their support for Obama’s current health care strategy in the USA has proved. On unemployment Brown reaches for Norman Tebbit’s big stick; whilst the PM honeys up the bankers and multi nationals, he threatens with the loss of their benefits the millions of young people who have been thrown on the …
2009-06-30 … or +972 2646 6340 fax: +972 2646 6357 CONTACT the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs tel: +972 2530 3111 fax: +972 2530 3367 CONTACT Mark Regev in the Prime Minister's office at: tel: +972 5 0620 3264 or +972 2670 5354 mark.regev@it.pmo.gov.il CONTACT the International Committee of the Red Cross to ask for their …
2009-07-03 … ALL AHMADINEJADS THEN": Hooman Majd in TNR: One Mousavi campaign manager was asked about the brutality of [the regime], way back, when [Mousavi] was prime minister in the 1980s. The staffer answered, "We were all Ahmadinejads then." After 6/12, we Iranians are all Mousavis now, even those who voted for …
2009-05-07 … thinking of trading them in. It is “no longer realistic to hope that Japan’s growth can come back just by exporting the same products,” the Japanese prime minister, Taro Aso, told Handelsblatt newspaper. Philipp Hildebrand, president of Switzerland’s central bank, expressed similar doubts. Germany’s economic …
2008-11-24 … woman once dubbed “Miss World” by a German tabloid has receded into the background. As President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister, bask in praise at their decisive handling of the crisis, the talk in Whitehall, Brussels and the ornate palaces of the French Republic is of a …
2008-03-19 … week the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, took half her cabinet to Jerusalem for an early celebration of Israel's 60th birthday (in May). Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, greeted her at the airport as if she were an American president. On March 18th Ms Merkel addressed Israel's parliament, an honour …
2009-06-25 … officials also have been courting Japanese investors into joining the SKV pipeline project." In televised comments during his visit to Tokyo in May, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said, "Japanese partners could take part in projects to develop pipelines and other transport infrastructure. I mean from Sakhalin …
2009-06-20 … affiliated to it. One of them was the president (Mahmud Ahmadinezhad) of our country, who is assiduous, deserving, and trustworthy. Another one was the prime minister for eight years (Mir-Hoseyn Musavi) during my tenure as the president. He was my prime minister for eight years. Another one was the commander of …
2009-06-19 … upon a compromise insisted upon by Dublin where guarantees of sovereignty will be included in the text of the Lisbon Treaty. As a result, Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen has announced that Ireland will hold a referendum on the treaty in October. "The EU has provided guarantees to Ireland that it will …
2009-06-16 … friendly relations between Moscow and Tehran.'" Worth reading in full. Also, World Bulletin reports that Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan have congratulated Ahmadinejad on his election "victory." RFE/RL reports that President Serzh Sarkisian of Armenia has also …
2009-06-16 … Europe and Asia, as he seeks to lessen the world economy’s dependence on the US dollar. Medvedev and Hu will hold talks later today with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the first summit of so-called BRIC nations. Hu called for greater coordination …
2007-07-09 From the Washington Post: Air Force Two touched down in Sydney this past Feb. 24. Dick Cheney had come to discuss Iraq. Prime Minister John Howard brought the conversation around to an Australian citizen who had unexpectedly become a political threat. Under pressure at home, Howard …
2005-09-25 … where voters last weekend got cold feet about pro-market changes at the ballot box […] If the outcome is very close, the choice over who will be prime minister could be complicated by the fact that Poland also faces presidential elections on 9 October, with a likely run-off vote two weeks later. Warsaw’s …
2009-06-23 … difference to 1979. Today, the opposition to Ahmadinejad is fighting the establishment with the establishment. Mir Hossein Mousavi himself was the prime minister of Iran during the first decade of the revolution, during a period when the current supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, was president. Mohammad …
2009-06-02 … though (in the “West”). A German student being tried in Britain is said to have gone beyond lawful protest when he threw a shoe towards Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao during a lecture at Cambridge University. What a bunch of humorless sticks in the mud youz guyz. He just wanted to have a little fun and …
2005-08-27 PM news can be sent to you via RSS feeds Getting information from the city of Port Moody is now really simple RSS feeds from the city websites most …
2005-11-30 … The intellectual property issues are obviously as keenly felt as the Eastern enlargement issues. As European of the Year emerged non other than Prime Minister Jean-Claude Junker of Luxembourg¨. Fresh from a battle earlier in the day with the European Central Bank he conceded that it has been “a very …
2005-11-29 In all sorts of different ways, energy policy will be high up on the agenda of Europe in the years to come. In a sure sign of this, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has now announced that he would look at the possibility of building new nuclear plants in order to replace those that are beginning to …
2005-11-28 Is the Estonian flat tax system “the best tax system in the world”, as claimed by Prime Minister Andrus Ansip when he hosted the visiting Prime Minister of Finland Matti Vanhanen a couple of days ago. Ansip even thought that it would be a good idea to have the system introduced in Finland, and …
2005-11-21 Today Prime Minister Ariel Sharon left the Likud party in Israel that he himself to a large extent had created back in 1973. Instead, he decided to set up a new …
2005-11-20 … Chief of Staff. People who know says that Medvedev is now convinced that everything is pointing to him as the man who at some time will be appointed Prime Minister and from that position, very much as once happened with Vladimir Putin, will be put forward as the candidate of power at the 2008 election. …
2009-06-17 … Gaza blockade as he meets Hamas leaders […] and you have the makings of a regional crisis. See, Bibi Netanyahu, the troubled and troubling Israeli prime minister, is on a two-pronged dilemma. On the one hand, he has to assure his supporters with respect to the Palestinians. On the other, he has a credible …
2009-03-29 … […] Muslim nations ask Turkey to veto [Danish PM] Rasmussen - [Turkish PM] Erdogan ` Quote: ` Erdogan said he talked to Rasmussen by telephone on Friday and told him the Turkish people were upset by the Danish prime …
2009-07-04 … is a creature of the Canadian federal government, and as crown corporation, that it would stand behind any cost over runs on the Darlington project. PM Harper said nothing doing and warned that Ontario should not expect a subsidy for its energy needs. The fact that the liberals in Ontario and the …
2009-06-09 … have some other enemies that would do that [deliver a pre-emptive strike] to them”. It was a clear reference to Israel, where Binyamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister, has talked about the possibility of military action to halt Iran’s nuclear programme — something he views as a threat to the Jewish state. Read …
2009-06-18 … "lard" in Spanish. Obviously the schools are a part of the lard of society. Can I $ell that idea, perhaps on talk radio? Math and science? Bah. Perhaps PM Stephen Harper up in Canada is correct. Nuclear energy is too expensive and too much of a luxury. Education for its workers is too expensive. If you …
2009-06-17 … has recently announced that Canada intends to stop production of medical isotopes. Harper also intends to sell AECL. Physics Today notes: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced that Canada will get out of the medical isotope business when Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.’s 52-year-old National …
2008-03-11 The Serbian coalition government, with moderate nationalist Vojislav Koštunica as Prime Minister
2007-06-12 … understand anyone who would take part in a protest against the president. “I think these are crazy people,” said Mr. Berisha, who is not related to the prime minister, “because democracy begins in America.”
2009-05-17 … club in Athens and will remain closed for three days in the luxurious hotel. Even though according to primary information invited were the Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis and the oppositional party leader PASOK Georgios Papandreou, they said that most likely they will not participate. It is believed …
2009-02-22 … Summit in London, have agreed to the need for fundamental changes in the world’s economic systems. At a joint press conference following the meeting the Prime Minister called for a “global new deal” to aid the recovery of the world economy and provide a set of principles for a sound future. The “grand bargain” …
2009-02-12 … and united action will we overcome the crisis. The internal market is the vehicle that will drive us out of it,” said Mirek Topolanek, the Czech PM, after talks with José Manuel Barroso, EU Commission President. The two announced the summits to limit the fall-out from a clash between French …
2009-07-06 … have changed both as a result of the crisis and the role played by emerging market countries." On Friday, Suresh Tendulkar, chairman of the Indian prime minister's economic advisory council, said the dollar's weight in the basket of currencies that helps set the rate of India's partially convertible rupee …
2009-07-05 … if they make the decision they are existentially threatened. No, he wasn't discussing Sartre, he was telling George Stephanopoulos that if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decides the international peace efforts concerning Iran are no longer doing anything worth waiting for, we wouldn't get in the …
2009-02-03 … Americans' minds. Even France (a profiligate spender by anyone's reckoning) is saying no to an Obama-style spending spree as explained by France's Prime Minister: "It would be irresponsible to chose another policy, which would increase our country's indebtedness without having more infrastructure and …
2006-12-15 … result of two years of preparation. Even international media (BBC, The Independent, Spiegel) reported about this rather special TV event. Obviously, Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt was not amused and was quoted with this statement: In the current context, it’s irresponsible for a public television channel to …
2009-04-03 … that he would be more authoritarian than his predecessor and would crack down on the democratic space in the country. In response, the then deputy prime minister appealed at the close of the Umno general assembly last Saturday to be judged by his actions. His first announcements as prime minister tonight have …
2009-04-03 … why can’t other Malaysians? The reason why so many are negative comments about Najib is simply because many Malaysians do not think he is fit to be the prime minister and the list of scandals warrant the criticisms. Never in the history of the country has a future prime minister been so tarnished. If there is …
2009-04-03 … also announce a decision on NATO’s new secretary-general, who will succeed Dutch diplomat Jaap de Hoop Scheffer whose term runs out Aug. 1. Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has emerged at the leading candidate, despite opposition from Turkey. Fogh Rasmussen infuriated many Muslims by speaking out …
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