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The Fiscal Cliff Deal
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Fiscal Cliff Accord Cleared 1st January a compromise was voted by the House of Representatives after being passed by the Senate earlier in the day. The law: American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (H.R.8) is expected to be quickly signed by President Ba...
Obama & Hollande
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Plantu compares America's inauguration Bible with France's Gallois report on improving productivity and competition, which the French president similarly swears upon (but with less than mucho enthusiasm)• François Hollande: Uh… I'll see what I c...
Xi Jinping and Barack Obama: two leaders facing very different crises | Timothy Garton Ash
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Xi Jinping faces deeper challenges than Barack Obama. We must hope they are met: it could be a matter of war and peaceSo, in the same week, it is revealed to us who will be the next leaders of both superpowers: Barack Obama and Xi Jinping. The only d...
If fiscal conservatives can't win in the US, can they win anywhere?
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These are awkward times to be a Right-of-Centre candidate. Many voters believe they are living through a crisis of capitalism. They blame the credit crunch on lack of regulation. They believe the deficit should be filled by taxing the bankers who, th...
Bringing the US election to Berlin
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Last night, the US election came to Berlin in a big way. More than 2000 people from the worlds of politics, media and business convened in Deutsche Telekom’s historic Telegraph Building to follow the action and debate the election live - in person,...
American Election 2012: Tales of Two Americas
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This weeks US presidential election confirmed the thoughts of many thinkers. America's party system is declining faster than anyone believed. Political polarisation and bitterness is dragging the US back to mid 19th century. Issues are not about slav...
"The Second Coming of Barack Obama" by Kemal Dervis
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The race was tough, but US President Barack Obama has won re-election. The question now, for the United States and the world, is what will he do with a fresh four-year term? To win re-election with a still-weak economy and unemployment close to 8% wa...
Transatlantic relations under Obama, 2008-2012
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In 2008, the election of US President Obama raised hopes in Europe that transatlantic relations would improve dramatically. Four years later, most Europeans indeed consider relations to be “good” or “mixed”. However, some hope...
Operation Renewed Hope: The EU Foreign Policy Agenda After the U.S. Election
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If Europeans want to be taken seriously as partners, have a modicum of influence on U.S. foreign policy decisions, and keep the United States interested in Europe, the homework is theirs to do, not America's.
Obama II and Europe
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Article by Daniela Vincenti published on EurActiv.com on November 7, 2012 With stratospheric popularity levels in Europe, Barack Obama – who won a second term last night – is expected to make a renewed commitment to energising the world e...
Intuition vs. statistics
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This morning Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski via twitter made a ‘political analysis’ of Barack Obama’s victory – ‘My intuition once again told me rightly that with the polls on a knife-edge the current Presiden...
Weekly Wrap Up:Obama, budget and Greece
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Obama is elected for another term as the president of the United States. What does that mean for Europe? In Greece the parliament will vote on new austerity measures. At the same time worker unions … Continue reading →...
What should we expect from Obama’s second term?
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“Forward” was one of the major slogans of Obama’s presidential campaign. This term is etymologically filled with hope, prosperity, solidarity, and, needless to say, a feeling that “we can win”. Obama has always been a po...
Five lessons from the US election
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Five thoughts on Obama’s victory (along with the gains in the Senate for the Democrats and what looks at time of writing to be further gains, albeit it small, in the House of Representatives): Women are the majority You wouldn’t notice it fro...
Obama's Re-election
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The re-election of Obama means one thing for Europe: the need for more Europe, not less.
Greek, British, French, German, Italian and Czech media on Barack Obama's 2012 reelection
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'Four more years', he tweeted at around 5am Paris time, although electorally speaking, the president had the cat in the bag not too far on on election night. With at least 303 votes out of 538 (the threshold was 270, and Mitt Romney won 206), he has...
U.S. Election: Relief in Brussels
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The main issue in the Brussels-Washington relationship during Obama's second term is expected to be the economy.
The 2012 Climate Disasters should wake up the USA
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2012 might become a pivotal year in US history. Never before has the country been hit by a such a devastating combination of severe droughts and hurricanes in the very same year, the economic cost of which may run up to some $ 60 billion. For the fir...
Russia Criticizes U.S. Election Process
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Russia’s Central Elections Commission has a few choice words for voting officials in the U.S.: Put your own house in order before criticizing us.
Are Republican primary voters costing the GOP elections?
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A friend recently observed, watching Mitt Romney’s campaign, that Romney was very similar to John McCain in one significant way. Neither Romney nor McCain resembled, in the final leg of the campaign, the candidates that had made them so attract...
Obama gave us 4 years of cronyism, secrecy, and deception
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Barack Obama promised to clean up government and restore Americans' trust in their leaders. He broke this promise, and instead gave us four years of cronyism, secrecy and deception. Thus writes Tim Carney.Obama's campaign rhetoric about honest...
China and U.S. face mirror-image leadership challenges
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Although they look like opposites, the United States and China suffer from the same problems: They are introspective, self-destructive and interdependent. China’s ying is often the cause of America’s yang. The big question facing the world this w...
Yes We Jerrycan
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Plantu on America's elections while New York is still in waiting• Yes We Jerrycan!
There is no force on Earth like American democracy
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You wouldn’t stay up to see who had been elected to China’s National People’s Congress, would you? Or tune in to watch the nomination hearings for European Commissioners? We are luckier than we sometimes realise in our superpower. Whatever happ...
U.S. Deficits: Reflect Virtue or Vice?
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Chronic government fiscal deficits, and thus debt, may suggest that a people is not up to self-governance. Moreover, the imbalance may be a drawback of democracy itself. That is to say, a people may not have sufficient will to constrain its own consu...
Human rights 'invisible' in US election campaign
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It should be a cause for concern around the world that human rights have not been on the agenda for either candidate throughout the US presidential election campaign, writes Kate Allen...
“Even In Social The US Election Is A Close Call” -another election roundup #benceamerikanbaskani
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Even In Social The US Election Is A Close Call from Sysomos Blog by Sheldon Levine Today is a very important day to the people of the United States of America. It’s election day. A day that has been four years in the making. As I sat down to collec...
American Presidential Election Day: The Winner 2012 Will Be? Do the Odds Tell Us?
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On this Election Day, U.S. Presidential Election betting odds at OddsChecker make the incumbent President Barack Obama the prohibitive favorite to win the election, as President Obama goes off at ca. 1/6 odds to win, while challenger Mitt Romney goes...
Zakaj bo zmagal Obama
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Zelo kratek komentar za Večer o tem zakaj bo Obama ponovno izvoljen za ameriškega predsednika tukaj.
Turkey Goes Cool on U.S. Election
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Four years ago when Barack Obama won the U.S. presidency, Turkey was captivated by the election of a man with Muslim heritage that they believed would make a positive contribution to regional security. Many Turks now feel less enthused with this elec...
The case for four more years? Look at the previous four
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Rachel Maddow had an excellent review of Obama's first term last night. It's bizarre that anyone would say the American president "hasn't done anything" in his first term. Historic legislative actions were taken during the first two years. And even a...
Kenyan witch doctor predicts Obama will win election
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A witch doctor from Obama’s ancestral home of Kogelo village in western Kenya has used his mystic powers to predict that the president will secure a second term. Scrapbook could not confirm rumours that “115 year-old” John Dimo is n...
US vote: Who you gonna call? ECB, not Brussels
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Geithner, left, has been in frequent touch with ECB's Draghi and his predecessor, Trichet. A joint election party co-hosted by Democrats and Republicans Abroad at the Renaissance Hotel in Brussels this evening is scheduled to go until 3am in ant...
VIDEO: Ohio to decide US Election 2012?
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As Americans go to the polls, our reporter Quinn Bowman filed this report for Channel News Asia from the key battleground state of Ohio.
Romney takes hit in late polling, Obama ‘has 92% chance of victory’
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Mitt Romney’s prospects in the US elections have taken another blow, with president Obama pulling away in polling. In the 12 national surveys of voting intention published yesterday, the incumbent led by an average of 1.6 percent, gaining groun...
Anthropology Guidebook U.S. Elections 2012, ‘New York Times,’ ‘Wall Street Journal’ Drop Paywalls for Election…an election roundup #benceamerikanbaskani
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The 6 Sets of Numbers That Will Decide Election 2012 from Mashable! by Quartz Ustream and Video the Vote Encourage Voters to Film Election Day Injustice from Mashable! by Fran Berkman Share the Vote: Show Friends You Participated in Election 2012 fro...
German columnist on Republican voters: "They are the Taliban of the West"
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"Useful idiots" and "the Taliban of the West", according to German journalist Jakob Augstein.(photo by Wikipedia)There is no perfect democracy anywhere - not in Germany, and even less so in the German sponsored creature called the Eu...
Barack Obama quotes David Cameron and Ed Miliband
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President Obama: “We’re all in this together. We rise or fall as one nation, as one people.” — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 5, 2012 Via: Shelly Asquith...
US Elections: What can Europe expect?
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Cafebabel Brussels organizes a last-minute debate before the US Election night; an open discussion about the various possible impacts on transatlantic relations with an audience of young Europeans and experts. (The first drink is on us!)November, 6 -...
Learning from Obama: Digital Tools in Political Campaigns
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Last week saw a veritable festival of events here at Fleishman-Hillard Brussels. We held a discussion on climate change and energy with NGOs on Wednesday as well as a talk from our very own DC colleague Bill Black on how the Presidential candidates...
Romney or Obama, it’s all the same for Europe
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Article by Mario Platero, published on Il Sole-24 Ore on November 5, 2012 Americans head to the polls tomorrow with a last-minute provocation from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on the subject of Europe. “Italy, Spain and Greece”,...
Obama: the anti-Americans’ American sporting a combination of historically persecuted ethnicity and posh seminar tone
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Barack Obama’s put-down of his rival, Mitt Romney, during the final US presidential television debate "was a piece of condescension, and it came not from a columnist but from the Commander-in-Chief" writes Charles Moore (thanks to Instapundit) in t...
Romney’s Money Goes Dutch
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You can now add the Netherlands to the Cayman Islands and Switzerland in the Mitt Romney tax-avoidance Hall of Fame: #Romney ontwijkt belasting door sluipweg via Nederland http://t.co/S1w4WKy2 about 22 hours ago via bitlyReplyRetweetFavorite @volkskr...
Top US pollster: Obama has 86% chance of winning the election
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Obama has an almost nine in ten chance of winning the US election. Nate Silver, whose Five Thirty Eight polling blog is published by the New York Times, predicted Obama an 86.3% chance of winning today – up 11.7% since the end of October. Thoug...
ABD seçimlerini takip etmek için Amerikan Anaakım Medyasından örnekler.. #benceamerikanbaskani
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bu listeyi Gaby’den çaldım (@DiplomatValise): ABC News Politics: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/ AP US Elections Style Guide: http://www.ap.org/Content/Press-Release/2012/AP-compiles-US-Elections-Style-Guide (Great source for proper usag...
A hotline for Europe
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It seems like U.S. Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, has found his trusted partner in solving the eurozone crisis. In a new report made by the Think Thank Bruegel, the president of the European Central Bank, … Continue reading →...
FSN Reporters Covering Election 2012 Across US
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FSN reporters are fanning out across the US to cover the 2012 election. Our correspondents will be at the following locations around election day and their updates will be seen and heard on news networks worldwide. You can also follow their updates o...
6 Kasım Amerikan Seçimleri İzleme Etkinliği [Follow Hub] ile ilgili herbirşey [#benceamerikanbaskani]
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A.B.D. Diplomatik Temsilciliği (@ABDIstanbul) ve Yaratıcı Fikirler Enstitüsü (@yfenstitusu) işbirliğiyle Haydarpaşa Tren Garı’nda ABD Başkanlık Seçimi İzleme programı düzenliyor. Program 6 Kasım’da Türkiye saatiyle 23:0...
The French are arguably the easiest Western nation to be brainwashed
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The bottom line, indeed, is that almost everybody in France is convinced that Obama is good and Romney is bad concludes Michel Gurfinkiel.According to a GlobeScan/PIPA poll conducted in 21 countries and released on October 22, 72% of the French supp...
Obama, Romney, and the almost irresistable pull of lesser-evilism
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I’m bloody glad I don’t live in the USofA. Because the more I see of, and hear from, this asshole… …the more I just know that were I a US citizen right now, I’d be chucking overboard the traditional Trotskyist position...
Relation adrift in the haze
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Every American presidential election tends to be the most important in the history. But this really is. What do you think, can we expect a change in the White House after the 6th of November? Barack Obama promised the change … Continue reading...
Worrying About Romney's Chances of Winning the Election, Le Monde Examines the Republican's Foreign Policy Views
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Starting to worry about Barack Obama's chances for reelection, Le Monde's Service International section authors a huge double-spread article on in the weekend issue to examine what Mitt Romney's foreign policy views are and what his diplomatic polici...
