Financial crisis: Gordon Brown calls for a new global order
The GuardianJanuary 26, 2009 Gordon Brown today called for a “new global order” to deal with the economic crisis as he warned against the protectionist policies of the 1930s. more
Year: 2009
EU discusses Guantanamo detainees
BBC News January 26, 2009 European Union foreign ministers are discussing whether their countries should take in detainees from the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. more
Is Afghanistan going to be Obama’s Iraq?
The Independent January 25, 2009 President Barack Obama is facing warnings that the US risks repeating some of its errors in Iraq as the new administration turns its focus to Afghanistan, where Nato forces are engaged in a conflict which has already lasted longer than the Second World War. more
German minister to present proposals on keeping cease-fire in Middle East
International Herald Tribune January 25, 2009 Wanting the European Union to play a more active role in the Middle East, the German foreign minister on Monday will present to his EU counterparts proposals to strengthen the fragile cease-fire that Egypt brokered last week between Israel and Hamas, along with ways to rebuild the infrastructure in […]
Remembering Germany
New York TimesJanuary 25, 2009 When my thoughts turn to wreckage, and there’s a lot of it about these days, I tend to think of Germany’s “Stunde null,” or zero hour, the moment in 1945 when a once powerful nation faced its utter moral and material bankruptcy, the rubble of its collective suicide. more