Word: zeitung
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fourth component of any European plan would be a clear idea about what to do when Saddam is gone. In an interview with the daily Süddeutsche Zeitung, Foreign Minister Fischer highlighted the importance of an exit strategy: "The United States possess the military means for a forceful change of regime in Iraq ... [but] for the U.S. this might mean a decade-long presence in the region. If they ended their presence before the apropriate time, it would be we, the Europeans, who would be left to suffer the fatal consequences...
...swirl that Premiere will soon seek to renegotiate its $330 million annual deal with Germany's domestic league - double the amount of the previous contract. "We have to bring our agreements into line with reality," Georg Kofler, the head of KirchPayTV, told the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. That reality: 2.4 million subscribers for the station, less than half the 6 million once projected. Says Kofler: "We can't continue to pay for subscribers who aren't there...
...Germany's Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung was more upbeat. "Cancellation of the ABM Treaty will not plunge the United States and Russia back into the old system of antagonism," the paper writes. "Cooperative elements have long since moved to the fore of the west's relations with Russia, which is more dependent on cooperation with western countries than ever before. This explains Moscow's unperturbed reaction to the U.S. withdrawal...
...Germany's Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder joined the chorus of concern, with the Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung reporting that the German leader had warned Washington "that an attack on Iraq could crack Mr. Bush's international anti-terror coalition." Schroeder added that "Germany itself would deploy troops to an Iraqi mission under one condition - that the Iraqi government approved the mission." In other words, not unless they're invited in by Saddam...
...front pages whistled a happy tune on the transition talks between four Afghan factions near Bonn this week, many of them carrying photographs of one or two women present as evidence of a new order in the making. But Germany's Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung offered a more sobering view. "Afghanistan's political reorganization poses the kind of question that ? has no good answers, only ones that pose greater or lesser degrees of evil," an editorial concludes. For example, without an international security force the country would quickly slide back into bloody civil war, but there's no "politically acceptable...