were exported; drugs and greed ruled; social awareness was replaced by political correctness, student activism by ambition, and real work by sitting in front of a PC clicking on investments.
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THE best news to come out of the Philippines in 2012—perhaps even better than the economic headlines—was probably the “framework agreement” between the...
Kanzlerin Merkel macht sich auf die Reise ins entfernte Chile, um beiderseitige Handelsbeziehungen zu etablieren. Trotz Euro-Krise, rund um den möglichen Austritt Großbritanniens aus der europäischen Gemeinschaft findet Angela Merkel Zeit für einen Kurzbesuch in Chile. Dabei geht es ein mögliches Freihandelsabkommen zwischen Deutschland und dem Andenland zu vereinbaren. Merkel auf wichtiger Handelsmission.
Darf der Sexismus, der immer noch eine bedeutende Rolle im Alltagsleben in Anspruch nimmt, öffentlich zur Schau gestellt werden? Warum müssen sich Frauen demgegenüber anzügliche Bemerkungen ihrer Kollegen gefallen lassen? Kann ein älter werdender Politiker vom Schlage eines Rainer Brüderle es sich leisten einer jungen Journalistin auf die Pelle zu rücken? Fragen über Fragen, auf die man nur mit dem Kopf schütteln kann. Über den Vorbildcharakter unserer Führungsgrößen.
Our language, much like everything these days, has been hacked. Fuzzy, contentious, and complex ideas have been stripped of their subversive connotations and replaced by cleaner, shinier, and emptier alternatives; long-running debates about politics, rights, and freedoms have been recast in the seemingly natural language of economics, innovation, and efficiency.
While the US Congress is consumed by the online piracy battle, an arguably more important fight over the future of the Internet is quietly unfolding abroad.
On July 14, 1858, British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement Emmeline Pankhurst was born, who helped women win the right to vote. Emmeline Pankhurst was named one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century by the Time magazine.
On July 29, 1805, French political thinker and historian Alexis de Tocqueville was born. He is best known for his Democracy in America, where he analyzed the rising living standards and social conditions of individuals and their relationship to the market and state in Western societies.
On October 16, 1906, German shoemaker Wilhelm Voight, just released from prison for forgery, purchased parts of used captain's uniforms. In this masquerade of a Prussian military officer he arrested the mayor and the treasurer of Köpenick for suspicion of crooked bookkeeping and confiscated the municipal funds
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Founded in 1989, the CEI is a regional intergovernmental forum committed to supporting European integration through cooperation among its Member States. It combines multilateral diplomacy and project management, both as donor and recipient, while bridging European macro-regions.
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