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...various parts of government involved, it's not unusual for a little intraministerial miscommunication to occur now and then. But many are asking why this decision, communicated poorly or not, was made now. With the G-20 meeting in London on April 2 and the NATO gathering in Strasbourg immediately after offering Spain a first chance to work with Obama, why would Zapatero risk alienating his allies? (See pictures of the world reacting to Obama's election...
...setting the stage for Obama's first visit to Europe as President next month, which includes a meeting with all 27 E.U. leaders in Prague as well as a London summit of the G-20, which gathers the world's major economies, and NATO's 60th anniversary summit in Strasbourg and Baden-Baden. "There is an overarching theme to the trip to Brussels, which is the reconnection of the United States with Europe and really a sense of consolidating this enormous political goodwill on both sides of the Atlantic," interim Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Daniel Fried said...
...period of economic crisis? We live in a globalized economy. We all depend on one another. Every country imports and exports goods or services. It would be a big mistake to be tempted by protectionism and it would not solve economic problems. It would rather amplify them. Philippe LaCome, STRASBOURG, FRANCE...
...chief factor was clear: Russians are unhappy with their own court system and don't believe they can get justice from it. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, a lawyer himself, announced plans to reform the Russian justice system to stop the flow of complaints to the ECHR in Strasbourg, France. Said Medvedev: "I generally agree that the Strasbourg court, with all my respect for it, cannot and should not replace Russian justice...
...Strasbourg court does indeed see a problem with Moscow's brand of justice and is now getting ready to take on one of the biggest legal controversies in Russia's history. Many of the cases from Russia that come before the ECHR are small or are duplicate complaints submitted by different plaintiffs. But in January, the ECHR announced a doozy: it said oil giant Yukos, which was effectively shut down by Moscow in 2006, three years after its boss, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was thrown into prison on charges of fraud and tax evasion, could proceed with a lawsuit seeking $34 billion...