Mention of Prussia Gets Politicians' Backs Up
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Seventy-one CDU deputies, which is in opposition in Germany, offered to make Russia's Kaliningrad region and its capital Kaliningrad, which for 700 years was the German city of Koenigsberg, a territory with a ...
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Germany and before that West Germany seemed so stable and democratic it might have been too easy to take that state of affairs for granted.
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KRYNICA, Poland  - Polish leader Marek Belka tried  to head off a controversy with Berlin over World War II  reparations after Poland's parliament caused anger in Germany  by declaring Poles were still owed for wartime losses.
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By Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Dec. 13--Good ideas occasionally do find their way into the Code of  Virginia. State Senator Ryan McDougle of Hanover and Attorney General Bob  McDonnell have proposed one such example for the upcoming General Assembly  session.
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STOLLBERG, Germany If Chancellor Gerhard SchrÃ¶der wants to understand why his governing Social Democrats will lose votes Sunday in elections in the eastern German states of Brandenburg and Saxony, he need only visit the small town of Stollberg.
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At least for a day in Washington, politics gave way to an old-fashioned civics lesson on the merits of democracy, warts and all.
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"They handled the Poles well but they probably underestimated the damage done in Poland by the Schroeder government."  May replace failed EU constitution UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL BRUSSELS -- Germany ends its presidency of the European Union with a major achievement in the agreement on a new treaty to replace the failed ... via World Peace Herald
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POLITICIANS, like people in general, should normally be judged by their actions not words.
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POTSDAM, Germany  - In Germany's summer of discontent over social welfare cuts, parties on the extremes of the political spectrum are finding voters easy prey for two state elections in the formerly communist east this weekend.
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When it comes to elected officials and earmarks, the policy seems to be the less said the better.
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Berlin, Sep 15 (IPS) - The ordination of three rabbis in Germany -- the  first such event since the holocaust -- has been lauded by  politicians and Jewish organisations as a step forward in  Germany's long battle to come to terms with its traumatic  history.
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State elections in the former East Germany are expected to see a resurgence by far right parties.
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PARIS One would think it was their leader being elected - and many Europeans believe it is, in a way. In a tremendous show of interest unseen in previous US presidential campaigns, Europeans on both sides
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New York Gov. George Pataki implores businesses to relocate to lower Manhattan in a taxpayer-funded ad campaign. In Maryland, Gov. Robert Ehrlich pitches tourism, energy-efficient homes and the state motor vehicle administration.
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Ahead of this weekend&#39;s elections in the eastern German states of Brandenburg and Saxony, leading politicians have been calling for voters to turn out and cast their ballots against far right parties.
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SIALKOT, Pakistan, Feb. 17 -- Many people in this gritty rural district of wheat fields and cinder-block factories believe one of the country's two main opposition parties deserves to win Monday's crucial voting for parliament. Yet they also believe the government will do everything it can to steal...
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the U.S government sends cyberinvestigators to help the Baltic state better understand what happened.