Sixty years ago today, on June 5, 1947, then Secretary of State George Marshall delivered a short speech at Harvard University’s commencement that would change history. The resulting Marshall Plan provided substantial U.S. financial assistance to a war-torn European continent. By the time the Marshall Plan ended in 1952, the US had invested $13.3 billion. [...]

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Nicolas Sarkozy has been elected on a strong political platform about reforms. He and his new government will have to wait for the results of parliamentary elections June 10th and 17th to make sure they will have a majority within the French national assembly, but reforms have already been announced and drafted. Here are some [...]

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