Article originally published on euobserver.com The world’s climate negotiators have been clocking up a few air miles this week as they travelled to Bangkok to prepare for December’s United Nations climate change talks in Copenhagen. While the developing world is reluctant to move forward without the developed world having taken the first step, new polling [...]

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Chancellor Angela Merkel famously displays upon her desk a framed picture of an 18th century princess from the German East who journeyed far from home to subdue a court teeming with dangerous rivals, and from there to rule an alien empire: Catherine the Great. Being an Empress in that dark era held undeniable advantages. One [...]

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German voters made a clear decision in their federal election last Sunday. As expected, Chancellor Angela Merkel can stay in office with her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), by far the strongest party with 33.8 percent of the vote, which is even less than the already disappointing result of the last election (35.4 percent)-a rather [...]

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