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...afrique, its half-century old policy of intervening in former colonies to prop up friendly dictators. Sarkozy had made it clear he wants to end such arrangements and favor greater democracy, events in Chad have left no good option. "I didn't want direct intervention before a precise legal framework" had been outlined, Sarkozy said Tuesday, insisting that the U.N. vote changed the equation. "We're no longer in what was called Françafrique. There are international rules, and I want to conform to them...
...package sets a framework for national laws that would slash Europe's overall emissions of carbon dioxide by 20% by 2020, compared to 1990 levels, and would ensure that 20% of Europe's energy by then comes from renewable sources like wind, solar and hydroelectric power. "Our proposals should reduce Europe's reliance on imported gas and oil by around 50 billion euros by 2020," explained Barroso. "These are figures with a real impact on our growth and prosperity...
...Europe - in a few years? Why? Are we going to sit back and allow ourselves not be able to defend against a coercive threat or an active threat should that evolve?" Following the meeting the Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg announced that the Czechs hoped to draft a "framework" agreement on technical cooperation with Czech companies as early as this spring but that conditions for a broader political agreement to host the project are still being discussed...
...rest is still mostly improvisation in a campaign that has been thriving on the charisma of its candidate, who lacks much of a policy framework or fundraising operation. In the course of four days, he has played his bass with both high school and professional bands. He has posed with soccer balls for the children of Iraq, and invited photographers to watch him run 14 miles Sunday afternoon before a debate - nine minutes a mile, says a press aide. Everywhere he goes, his celebrity endorser Chuck Norris follows...
...With 18 coups since the World War II and 18 different constitutions, Thailand has yet to find a democratic framework or formula where everyone is reasonably satisfied. It remains a nation deeply divided along class, regional and religious lines. The man who most successfully exploited these divisions was Thaksin, the patron of the PPP now living in self-imposed exile in England. Using his leverage as one of Thailand's richest men, he successfully wooed lawmakers from several other political parties to join his Thai Rak Thai party in the late 1990s. Thai Rak Thai (TRT) dominated Thailand's political...