BERLIN—It is German Question Time once more in Europe. Only Germany, the continent’s most powerful economy, and still miraculously going strong, can lead the way to a recovery. That much is admitted from Lisbon to Tallinn, and even in Berlin. The problem is that the Germans, less than two weeks before an historic EU summit [...]

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BRUSSELS – Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski came to Berlin and, in the presence of the German foreign policy establishment, asked – indeed, demanded – Germany to play the leading role in solving Europe’s crisis. Sikorski analyzed the elements of the crisis and arrived at the stark conclusion that only two scenarios for its continuation [...]

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BRUSSELS – Radoslaw Sikorski’s Berlin speech shattered any illusion in London that British Prime Minister David Cameron could rally the 10 eurozone “outs” to British positions at the European Union summit on December 9. Sikorski’s federalist vision, commitment to Poland’s joining the euro, and invitation to the United Kingdom to join the eurozone, or at [...]

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BERLIN – The economic news from this blessed country in the heart of Europe are, well, not great. But then again, they could be worse.  Certainly compared with the outlook of all these other foreign and distant countries that form the rest of continent called Europe. Just look at Die Welt, the conservative daily, which [...]

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WARSAW – In Berlin this week, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski called for a greater federalization of Europe, emphasizing that, notwithstanding the economic dimension of the crisis, the core of the EU’s problem is one of leadership.  The enduring significance of Sikorski’s message lies less in the specifics of his proposed reforms and more in the [...]

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BRUSSELS — Expectations are low at the beginning of the 17th annual United Nations conference on climate change that began this week in Durban, South Africa. The European Union and the United States have assumed contrary positions and even disagree over what would constitute a successful outcome. But, behind the talks, and despite that standoff, [...]

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WASHINGTON—The European Commission’s economic proposals to be unveiled on Wednesday will include a call for the Eurozone nations to pool their representation at the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) into a single seat. Designed to boost the currency bloc’s clout at a time when emerging markets are seeking greater powers in the world [...]

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WASHINGTON—In a presidential race focused firmly on domestic issues, this week’s Republican presidential debate on foreign policy and national security provides a rare and valuable opportunity for Americans and the rest of the world to hear the candidates revisit the perennial question of “What keeps you up at night?” — and its slightly more frightening [...]

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The avalanche of media coverage of the Department of Energy’s roughly half million dollar loan guarantee to Solyndra, a solar technology company that ultimately went bankrupt, has distorted what urgently needs to be a healthy debate on policy options to dramatically increase private sector investments in clean-energy technologies.  The real question is not aboutwhether governments [...]

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WASHINGTON—The Arab League’s near-unanimous vote to suspend Syria’s membership after eight months of crackdowns on anti-government protestors is being greeted as a game-changer by the West. It recalled a similar action earlier this year when the League suspended Libya’s membership, thus paving the way for the NATO airstrikes that eventually helped bring down Muammar Gaddafi’s [...]

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