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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Berlin Speech: History Raises the Stakes</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/06/19/obamas-berlin-speech-history-raises-the-stakes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Jim Kuhnhenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(BERLIN) — Five years and 50 years. As President Barack Obama revisits Berlin, he can&#8217;t escape those anniversaries and the inevitable comparisons to history and personal achievement. With his own 2008 speech at Berlin&#8217;s Victory Column and former President John F. Kennedy&#8216;s 1963 historic denunciation of the Soviet bloc as markers, Obama will use an address at the city&#8217;s Brandenburg Gate on Wednesday to renew his call to reduce the world&#8217;s nuclear stockpiles. The White House said Obama will draw attention to his plan for a one-third reduction in U.S. and Russian arsenals, rekindling a goal that was a centerpiece of his early first-term national security agenda. Obama will also hold an afternoon news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel after a meeting between the two leaders. His 26-hour whirlwind visit to the German capital caps three days of international summitry for the president and marks his return to a place where he once summoned a throng of 200,000 to share his ambitious vision for American leadership. That was 2008, when Obama was running for president and those who supported him at home and abroad saw the young mixed-race American as a unifying and transformational figure who signified hope and change. Five years later, Obama comes to deliver a highly anticipated speech to a country that&#8217;s a bit more sober about his aspirations and the extent of his successes, yet still eager to receive his attention at a time that many here feel that Europe, and Germany in particular, are no longer U.S. priorities. A Pew Research Center poll of Germans found that while their views of the U.S. have slipped since Obama&#8217;s first year in office, he has managed to retain his popularity, with 88 percent of those surveyed approving of his foreign policies. (TIME POLL: Americans Believe Country Heading In Wrong Direction) Obama also has an arc of history to fulfill. Fifty years ago next week, President Kennedy addressed a crowd of 450,000 in that then-divided city to repudiate communism and famously declare &#8220;Ich bin ein Berliner,&#8221; German<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=90813&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Its Highest Court, Germany Argues Over the Legality of a Key Bailout Promise</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/06/13/in-german-courtroom-merkels-government-sides-with-the-euro-doves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 06:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Gumbel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the euro crisis has rumbled on over the past three years, politicians, analysts and commentators around the world have frequently referred to Germany as the hardline taskmaster of the continent, the nation that insists on financial austerity in the rest of Europe despite the growing human cost of lost jobs and destroyed businesses. But in a courtroom in the provincial town of Karlsruhe this week, a rather different picture has emerged: that of a Germany that is far from being monolithic on the issue, and in fact is itself divided over what the right course of action should be, and whether German taxpayers should end up footing the bailout bill for their neighbors at all. Intriguingly, given her reputation for inflexibility around Europe, it’s the German government of Chancellor Angela Merkel that turns out to be on the side of the doves in this dispute. It has spoken out unambiguously in favor of pragmatism in dealing with the euro crisis. Even if German cash is involved, is the message, Merkel and her ministers are willing to compromise if that&#8217;s what it will take to save the euro. (MORE: The Cost of Green: Germany Tussles Over the Bill for Its Energy Revolution) The hearing took place before the Federal Constitutional Court, the highest in the land. It is considering a suit brought by about 37,000 German citizens who argue that the European Central Bank’s promises to “do whatever it takes” to rescue financially troubled euro-zone nations is in breach of the German constitution. In particular, they are objecting to the idea that the ECB could essentially bail out other European nations by buying up sovereign bonds of struggling euro-zone nations. The court will deliver its ruling in the fall, probably not before the German parliamentary elections on September 22. It can’t tell the ECB what to do. In the past, it has considered other complaints about European encroachment on German sovereignty, but has so far never struck down EU decisions in a way that could fundamentally disrupt the workings of the single currency. However,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=89795&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Floods Force Thousands to Evacuate in Germany</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/06/09/floods-force-thousands-to-evacuate-in-germany/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 13:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(BERLIN) — Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in a region of eastern Germany where the Elbe river has flooded and burst through a dam, officials said Sunday. At least 21 people have been killed by a week of flooding in central Europe, as rivers such as the Danube, the Elbe and the Vlatava have overflowed after heavy rains and caused extensive damage in central and southern Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary. The latest fatality was an 80-year-old man who died of a heart attack in Austria on Sunday while cleaning up debris caused by flooding, the German news agency dpa reported. In Germany&#8217;s eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, more than 8,000 people were evacuated by bus from the town of Aken and its neighboring villages after a dam on the Elbe river broke on Saturday, said police spokesman Uwe Holz. In Magdeburg, the state&#8217;s capital, more than 3,000 residents had to leave their homes after many streets and buildings were flooded and electricity was shut off, dpa said. Further north on the Elbe river, residents were trying to protect themselves from flooding by building levees along the banks of the rising waterway. Officials in Saxony-Anhalt state also were investigating what appeared to be a threat to destroy dams. Several media outlets said they had received a letter threatening to blow up dams on the Elbe river, Holger Stahlknecht, the state&#8217;s interior minister, said Sunday. &#8220;We are taking the letter seriously,&#8221; he told dpa. He said authorities have stepped up their surveillance of dams and urged residents to remain calm. In Hungary, officials said the flooded Danube River was expected to reach Budapest late Sunday but that defenses should keep the water out of most of the capital. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said no casualties have been reported in his country, but that 7,000 soldiers and thousands of volunteers were packing sandbags on the banks of the Danube to shore up flood walls.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=89205&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cost of Green: Germany Tussles Over the Bill for Its Energy Revolution</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/28/the-cost-of-green-germany-tussles-over-the-bill-for-its-energy-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 07:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jabeen Bhatti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Germany is coming under increasing pressure to move forward with its ambitious plan to shut down its nuclear program within a decade and replace the lost power mainly with renewables. On May 24, the International Energy Agency lauded Germany’s Energiewende, its plan to transition to a renewably powered economy, while expressing concern over the impact of rising energy costs on industry and consumers. Agency officials urged the government to “maintain” a stable policy environment to reduce costs from the transition and distribute them more equitably while increasing investment. “The fact that German electricity prices are among the highest in Europe despite relatively low wholesale prices must serve as a warning signal,” said IEA executive director Maria van der Hoeven as she presented the agency’s report, Energy Policies of IEA Countries — Germany 2013 Review, in Berlin. “The German government should maintain its policy course based on a predictable and stable regulatory framework while actively seeking means to reduce the costs as sudden changes can undermine investor confidence and will drive up costs in the long term.” Since approving the energy transition in 2011 — which aims to ensure that an ambitious 80% of the country’s electricity will be supplied by renewable sources by 2050 — Germany has been grappling with severe economic, technological and infrastructure issues in implementing the plan. But now analysts say the upcoming federal elections in September have created an additional stumbling block as German politicians worry over a backlash from voters because of the plan&#8217;s skyrocketing price tag. (MORE: If Carbon Markets Can’t Work in Europe, Can They Work Anywhere?) “It’s halting the development of the Energiewende,” said Matthias Lang, an attorney with Bird &#38; Bird law firm in Düsseldorf who specializes in energy issues. “We’re in uncharted territory. But it is difficult with the elections — you have all these currents — they are preventing the necessary adjustments to keep the boat going in the right direction.” Since late last year, the debate over the energy revolution has shifted from “How do we get this done?” to “How do<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=87838&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Two men stand in the new solar power plant of operating company Norddeutsche Energiegemeinschaft in Buetzow, Germany, March 15, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>Germany&#8217;s Neo-Nazi Trial: The Banality of Evil Has a New Face</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/15/germanys-neo-nazi-trial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 20:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kharunya Paramaguru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Beate Zschäpe arrived at Munich&#8217;s Upper Regional Court on Tuesday, wearing a plain gray suit, her calm appearance contrasted with what some commentators are calling one of the most important trials in Germany’s postwar history. The 38-year-old stands accused of being a member of a neo-Nazi cell responsible for a series of racially motivated murders across the country. Her first appearance the week before prompted one German newspaper to editorialize that &#8220;Evil has a face. An ordinary face.&#8221; The case, which finally commenced this month after many delays, features 600 witnesses, 49 lawyers representing 71 joint plaintiffs and a bill of indictment against Zschäpe — who if convicted could be sentenced to life in prison — that runs nearly 500 pages. With more than 80 days allocated for the trial, which German legal experts say could drag on till 2014, Zschäpe and right-wing extremism will be sure to be under the media spotlight in Germany for a while. Three days into the trial, the defense lawyers have already begun arguing for it to be stopped on the basis that the case has been prejudged as a result of the government paying out compensation to the families of the victims. The trial is the culmination of the search for the perpetrators of a seven-year killing spree that took place between 2000 and 2007 across Germany. Ten people were murdered during the spree, eight of whom were of Turkish descent. A ninth victim was of Greek descent; the final victim a German policewoman. (MORE: Germany’s Angst: A Country’s Culture Bumps Up Against Its Nazi Past) German police got a break in their investigation in November 2011 when the bodies of Uwe Böhnhardt and Uwe Mundlos, two members of the self-styled National Socialist Underground (NSU) movement, were found in the eastern city of Eisenach. They had apparently committed suicide following a bank robbery. Zschäpe, the alleged co-founder and comrade of the two bank robbers, turned herself in to authorities saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m the one you are looking for,&#8221; after setting fire to a house in the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86627&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Defendant Beate Zschaepe enters court with law enforcement officers on the first day of the NSU neo-Nazi murder trial in Munich, on May 6, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>Germany&#8217;s Angst: A Country&#8217;s Culture Bumps Up Against Its Nazi Past</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/14/german-culture-bumps-painfully-up-against-the-countrys-nazi-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Gumbel / Paris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 68 years since the defeat of Hitler and the end of World War II, countless movie and theater directors, writers, dancers, poets and sculptors around the world have used themes from the Third Reich and the Holocaust as the backdrop for their work, from artist Gerhard Richter&#8217;s painting of his uncle Rudi in his German army uniform to Quentin Tarantino’s movie Inglourious Basterds. In Germany itself, where the philosopher Theodor Adorno once declared that “after Auschwitz, it’s barbaric to write poetry,” cultural references to the Holocaust are weighed down with especially heavy significance, but that hasn’t stopped frequent allusions to the Holocaust on stage and in art galleries. Yet even today, judging by two current incidents that have sparked raging controversies — a production of a Richard Wagner opera in Düsseldorf and an exhibition of German art at the Louvre museum in Paris — Europeans are still struggling to agree on what is thoughtful representation of Nazism in works of art and what is downright unacceptable. Contemporary European politics appears to be playing a role in this debate. Germany’s decisive part in the ongoing European economic and financial crisis has made the nation in general and Chancellor Angela Merkel in particular the focus of some ill-tempered attacks, and at times direct comparisons to Nazi Germany, by politicians and the press in countries from Greece to Spain. It has even sparked tensions with long-standing ally France. Germany has long been used to references to its troubled history, knowing it&#8217;s an easy target. Still, the fierce reaction to the latest events is surprising, even to some experts who have studied Germany’s attempts to come to terms with its own past. Norbert Frei, a historian who has done extensive work on Germany’s relationship to the Nazi period, including a study of the Foreign Ministry’s archives, says that Germany&#8217;s efforts to come to terms with its own past have continued unabated. “What’s different is the role of Germany itself at present, and how others see it,” says Frei, who is currently teaching<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86305&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">The Richard Wagner opera Tannhäuser being staged at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, Germany, on May 9, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>France May Aid Syrian Rebels Unilaterally If EU Doesn&#8217;t Lift Arms Embargo</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/14/france-may-aid-syrian-rebels-unilaterally-if-eu-doesnt-lift-arms-embargo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[France has significantly upped its efforts to unblock Western military support for rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by calling for the European Union to lift its arms embargo in the conflict. In the most emphatic sign yet that Paris intends to get weapons and ammunition flowing to anti-Assad fighters, French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius said March 14 that if the E.U. and other international partners fail to heed that call, France may act on its own to bolster rebel fighting capacity. “The position we’ve taken, with [President] François Hollande, is to demand a lifting the arms embargo… [as] one of the only ways to get the situation moving politically,” Fabius told France Info radio Thursday morning. Asked what France would do if its partners refused that request, Fabius indicated Paris would act unilaterally, reminding listeners that “France is a sovereign nation”. (MORE: Syria’s Many Militias: Inside the Chaos of the Anti-Assad Rebellion) That push isn’t the first time France has sought to extend aid to Syrian civilians and anti-Assad militias beyond the medical and humanitarian assistance it now provides. During a Jan. 28 conference on Syria in Paris, Fabius warned that continuing to withhold armaments to democratic forces within the Syrian resistance risked seeing large and powerful Islamist members of the anti-government coalition seize control of the country once the conflict ended. Fabius more recently escalated the tone of that message in a March 13 editorial in the daily Libération by describing what he called a Franco-British initiative. That consisted, Fabius said of seeking to bring a swifter end to the escalating massacre of the civil war by offering military as well as political and moral support to rebel forces. &#8220;More than 70,000 dead and a million refugees, the systematic destruction of a country: the second anniversary of the launch of the Syrian revolution is an anniversary of blood and tears,” Fabius wrote Wednesday. “We must convince our partners, particularly in Europe, that we no longer have any other choice than to lift the embargo on arms to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=75356&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Last Survivor of &#8220;Operation Valkyrie,&#8221; a Hitler Assassination Plot, Dies at 90</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/13/last-survivor-of-operation-valkyrie-a-hitler-assassination-plot-dies-at-90/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ollie John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last surviving member of a plot to kill Adolf Hitler has died at the age of 90. Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist once volunteered for a suicide attack on Adolf Hitler, and was later involved in the famous &#8220;Operation Valkyrie&#8221; attempt on the dictator&#8217;s life. As a 22-year-old army lieutenant, von Kleist had been chosen to model a new army uniform for Hitler. Having met the army officer and Hitler-opponent Claus von Stauffenberg while recovering from injuries sustained in 1943 on the Eastern Front, he volunteered to wear a suicide vest underneath his uniform, and detonate it while he stood next to the dictator. (MORE: Hitler, Frankenstein Compete in Indian Local Elections) When told about the plan, his father—who had opposed Hitler since before the war and had been arrested many times for resistance activity—said: “Yes, you have to do that. A man who doesn’t take such a chance will never be happy again in his life,” reports the New York Times. The plan fell through, because Hitler had changed his plans – as he frequently did later in the war. But von Kleist volunteered for a second assassination attempt—masterminded by von Stauffenberg and portrayed in the 2008 movie Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise—in which he would carry a briefcase packed with explosives to a meeting at Hitler&#8217;s Wolf&#8217;s Lair in occupied Poland. (MORE: Adolf Hitler’s ‘Wolf Lair’ Is Now Up for Rent) But von Stauffenberg ended up entering by himself, and the plot unravelled when the briefcase, which von Stauffenberg had placed in a conference room where Hitler was meeting with aides, was moved next to a heavy oak table leg. Although four people were killed and virtually everyone in the room was injured, Hitler escaped the full force of the blast. Von Stauffenberg was later tracked down to his offices in Berlin and subsequently court martialed and executed by firing squad. Von Kleist was also arrested and interrogated for several weeks. But, while most of the other conspirators, including his own father, were killed, von Kleist was unexpectedly released and allowed to return to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=74874&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Germany&#8217;s Muzzled Military Moving into a New Era?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/27/is-germanys-muzzled-military-moving-into-a-new-era/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik N. Nelson / Berlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 1, the German Parliament will debate sending 80 soldiers to Mali to provide medical care and help French soldiers train Malian government troops to clear mines and build bridges. That may not seem like a big task for the world’s fourth largest economy, but it represents a significant change for a country that has spent the past 68 years trying to live down its martial past. The mooted deployment looks likely to be waved through by the Bundestag, Germany’s Parliament, though not without controversy. Germany’s politicians are then expected to discuss a proposal, made earlier this month by German Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière, to work with France to develop a European killer drone. On Jan. 31, Parliament overwhelmingly voted to extend Germany’s decadelong Afghanistan mission by 13 months, a commitment that surpasses Germany’s swashbuckling French neighbor, which ended its Afghan mission in November. For people who fear a resurgence of German military might — and Germans themselves may top that list — the German constitution provided reassurance. In 1956, the Allies allowed West Germany to establish a military but troops stayed at home unless the German public could be convinced to back neutral peacekeeping or humanitarian missions. These days, with nearly 6,000 troops deployed outside its borders, Germany has the second largest such commitment among Europeans after the U.K. That includes more than 4,260 personnel serving in the NATO-led coalition in northern Afghanistan, soon to be reduced to 3,500. In Kosovo, Germany’s 816 peacekeepers make up the largest national contingent. The rest patrol for pirates off the Horn of Africa, man Patriot antimissile batteries in Turkey — which Chancellor Angela Merkel toured on Feb. 24 — and perform peacekeeping and training missions in Lebanon, the two Sudans, Uganda and Congo. (MORE: What Does the Future Hold for the Sudans: An Assessment by America&#8217;s Envoy) The scale of these deployments attracts some criticism in foreign capitals, not for being too big but for being small in proportion to Germany’s economic muscle. Officials in the U.K. especially, as well<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=70753&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CEO of U.S. Tire Company Gets into Fight with All of France</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/21/ceo-of-u-s-tire-company-gets-into-fight-with-all-of-france/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What’s French for “cat fight”? Ask American businessman and would-be industrial investor Maurice Taylor, who has provoked la France entière by claiming the “French workforce gets paid high wages but works only three hours.” In doing so, Taylor mockingly dismissed French government invitations to invest in a struggling tire factory in northern France. “How stupid do you think we are?” Taylor asked in a letter sent to French Industrial Renewal Minister Arnaud Montebourg, who had asked the CEO of the Titan International tire company to invest in a money-losing Goodyear plant in Amiens. The notoriously hard-edged Taylor maintained the factory suffers from the same lame work ethic, coddled labor force, union domination and protection of feckless politicians he seems to see plaguing the wider French economy. “You can keep the so-called workers. Titan has no interest in the Amiens North factory,” Taylor said in a double-barrel missive revealed by the French media Feb. 20. “Titan is going to buy a Chinese tire company or an Indian one, pay less than one euro per hour and ship all the tires France needs.” (MORE: Goodyear’s French Nightmare) That’s exactly the kind of business ethos assured to enervate Montebourg—a crusading leftist cabinet member who has repeatedly locked horns with bosses over job cuts. Last year Montebourg threatened to nationalize French units of Arcelor Mittal over what he called the steel giant’s “lying” by ignoring promises not to close plants. In replying to Taylor&#8217;s broadside, Montebourg scorned  the CEO&#8217;s “extremist insults” of France as a reflection his “perfect ignorance of what our country is.” Perhaps, but Taylor’s tarring of the Amiens operation succeeded to obtain what may have been a broader objective: using it as a broad brush to tarnish a purportedly pampered, work-averse French society—one the 1996 GOP primary candidate doesn’t seem too fond of. Indeed, in deriding the Goodyear workforce that “gets paid high wages but&#8230;get(s) one hour for breaks and lunch, talk for three and work for three,” Taylor seemed to be shaking a fist at the entire French socioeconomic model<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=70411&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Fires &#8216;Neo-Nazi&#8217; Security Firm at German Facilities</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/19/amazon-fires-neo-nazi-security-firm-at-german-facilities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ollie John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online retailer Amazon has fired a German security firm which staff allegedly bullied foreign workers and had links to the neo-Nazi movement. A documentary aired on German TV alleged that employees of Hensel European Security Services, or HESS, intimidated and harassed seasonal workers at three of Amazon’s German distribution centers, reports the Daily Telegraph. Security staff, outfitted with black uniforms and military-style haircuts, would routinely search workers’ belongings at their cramped temporary housing at a vacant holiday park, the documentary claimed. Some employees of HESS — an acronym the documentary claimed is a direct reference to Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess — were shown wearing a clothing brand, Thor Steinar, which is linked to the neo-Nazi scene, writes the Telegraph. The documentary also alleged that HESS is headed by a man with links to soccer hooligans. (MORE: &#8216;Death Match&#8217;: Why a Nazi-Era Soccer Movie Is Making Ukraine Angry) “As a responsible employer of approximately 8,000 salaried logistics employees, Amazon has zero tolerance for discrimination and intimidation and expects the same from every company we work with,” Amazon told the Financial Times. But Amazon itself also came under scrutiny: the company, which has about 7,700 people on staff in Germany and hires additional temporary workers at peak times, paid the foreign workers less than the advertised rate, the documentary alleged. One woman from Spain claimed her contract with Amazon was terminated without explanation the day after she complained about the behavior of the security staff, Sky News reports. The company has faced repeated criticism over working conditions in its European distribution centers. Amazon workers in Germany have long complained of intense pressure, random searches and short breaks, notes the Telegraph. And a recent investigation by the Times revealed that workers at an Amazon warehouse in the U.K. walked from 11 km to 24 km per day. MORE: Is There a Future for Same-Day Delivery? How About Online Grocery Shopping?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=69816&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The European Slump: France Gives Up Lowering Its Budget Deficit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poorer-than-expected economic news completely outed what was already the worst-kept secret in France. On Feb. 14, members of socialist President François Hollande’s government admitted they wouldn&#8217;t meet their 2013 target of keeping the budget deficit to 3% as previously (and incessantly) promised. That avowal was hardly a shocker: until now, the only people taking the 3% pledge seriously were the same French government officials who continued citing it despite increasingly dire economic statistics. But with figures for the fourth quarter of 2012 showing growth levels worse than feared, even Team Hollande conceded that meeting the 3% deficit objective had become the stuff of fantasy. “We won’t be exactly at 3% for 2013, I believe, for the simple reason that growth in France, Europe and in the world is weaker than expected,” socialist Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said after official stats indicated the French economy shrank by 0.3% in Q4 2012, while growth across the euro zone was expected to decrease to around 0.6%. “[But] the objective — and it will be met — is 0% [budget] deficit by the end of [Hollande’s] five-year term, and what’s important is trajectory toward that.” (MORE: It’s Official: Euro Zone Enters Second Recession in Three Years) That “focus on the bigger target” message is one Hollande and his government have continually peddled to French voters and E.U. officials — especially as the economic outlook has darkened. Yet despite the abandonment of the 3% deficit-reduction target for this year, Ayrault’s assurances on progression to the larger, further balance-budget goal aren’t unfounded. The French deficit that ballooned to 7.1% in 2010 was first lowered to 5.8% in 2011 under conservative rule, and further cut to an expected 4.5% this year after the election of Hollande and fellow leftists last year. The goal of bringing it down this year to 3% — the official maximum allowed for euro members — was set within a range of economic policies and reforms that combined cuts, targeted stimulus spending and increased taxes. That approach, Hollande pledged, would stimulate France’s slumping economy enough<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=69106&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;A Sense of Duty&#8217;: Germany Reacts to Pope Benedict XVI&#8217;s Resignation</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/11/a-sense-of-duty-germany-reacts-to-pope-benedict-xvis-resignation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Cote / Berlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mayor of Marktl am Inn, the tiny village in Upper Bavaria where Pope Benedict XVI was born, is surprised to hear his village’s favorite son will be stepping down, but says it won’t be bad for business. “I saw him last year in Rome for his 85th birthday, and he seemed in good mental and physical shape” recalls Hubert Gschwendtner. “So, yes, this was completely unexpected. It is a shame. It is a loss.” But Gschwendtner says he still expects that Marktl am Inn will be a top destination for tourists and pilgrims. Marktl am Inn is a village of less than 3,000 souls, but it now attracts about 100,000 tourists per year; last year, 20,000 people visited the Pope&#8217;s birth home alone, according to Gschwendtner. “It was double that in the first two years of his papacy, but it has leveled off now and we really don’t expect it to change,” says the mayor. “After all, his birthplace is a historical fact.” In the nearby city of Passau, Catholic priest Mirko Legawiec says the resignation was perfectly in line with the Pope’s character. “This is proof of his humility. To admit your weakness in public. I regret that he is stepping down, but I can understand. To me every word that he spoke was golden. And I think he was appreciated by many more people than the media would have you believe. His books were best sellers.” Reinhold Plenk, a retired lawyer who is head of Passau’s Catholic Business Association, says that given the Pope’s age, “it was a surprise decision, but it was an important decision. It was good.” Plenk says he believes the Pope will be known more for his defense of church dogma than his ability to touch peoples’ souls. Dr. Heribert Woelki, the head of a Catholic geriatric hospital in Düsseldorf, praises the Pope for stepping down. “It is probably one of his German qualities,” says Woelki. “A sense of duty. All of his decisions were well-thought-out.” Dr. Marianne Kolmar, a physician in Berlin,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=68375&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The E.U. Budget: Champions of Austerity Win a Big Battle&#8211;for the Most Part</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/08/the-e-u-budget-champions-of-austerity-triumph-win-a-big-battle-for-the-most-part/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marathon negotiations between European Union leaders in Brussels produced a deal Feb. 8 on a seven-year budget following 36 hours of tense discussion. Indeed, that compromise appears as much a reflection of the considerable differences still dividing the 27-nation bloc as it is a convergence of vision and priorities. The budget for the 2014-2020 period is being viewed as a success for EU champions of austerity, because while it outlines maximum credits of €960 billion ($1.3 trillion), it limits actual spending to around €908 billion ($1.2 trillion). Overall the document represents a 3% cut from the plan covering 2007-2013—the first budget reduction in European Union history. The accord announced Friday afternoon represents a victory for UK Prime Minister David Cameron and his German budget ally, Chancellor Angela Merkel. The pair had teamed up with demands the same belt-tightening national governments have applied to address debt-swamped public finances also be extended to the EU through budget cuts. That drive led an initial budget proposal of nearly $1.4 trillion to be scaled back to $1.3 trillion during a November summit that ended without a full agreement. The final budget came after the UK-German duo—supported by countries like Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands—clawed back around $15 billion more from the November proposal. Overall, EU officials say, the penny-pinching camp erased about $45.8 billion in previously proposed spending. (MORE: A Deeply Divided European Union Faces Budgetary Cliff) One way the austerity camp did that was by imposing an additional condition that only €908 billion of the total €960 billion credited to the budget will actually be spent—effectively slapping a reduction on a cut. Leaders who resisted those slashing efforts tried to paint them as an inevitable evil within the context of the enduring European financial crisis and economic slump. But even as they sought to put the best face on an accord they clearly disliked, the anti-reduction crowd suggested they’d averted even worse cuts that London had sought to impose. “My responsibility was to put forward what I thought was the best [compromises] under<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=67994&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Europeans Don&#8217;t Really Want an E.U. Budget Deal</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/07/why-the-europeans-dont-really-want-an-e-u-budget-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s difficult to designate an obvious villain in the European Union’s stalled budget negotiations. Virtually all 27 member states are advancing mostly national interests in what’s supposed to be the world’s largest team effort. That is why few observers expect E.U. leaders converging on Brussels Thursday for another round of budget summitry to come away with a mutually acceptable compromise. Indeed, no agreement may be the best agreement for all concerned. The Feb. 7 and 8 summit seeks to establish the E.U.’s budget for the 2014–2020 period — a quest that went nowhere when leaders last huddled to talk finances in November. On the face of it, the cause of the impasse is fairly simple. Fiscally conservative countries like the U.K., Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark want to see Europe’s budget cut in the same way that spending by national governments has been slashed to remedy debt-plagued public accounts. Countries like France, Poland, Italy and Spain, by contrast, generally seek to maintain or inch up current E.U. funding levels and redirect money saved through austerity to other economic and social programs capable of stimulating slumping growth. If that seems like déjà vu all over again, it is: those are largely the same fault lines that split northern and southern E.U. members over how to respond to Europe’s financial crisis. (MORE: A Deeply Divided European Union Faces Budgetary Cliff) Though a degree of progress toward a budget compromise has been made, literally billions (of euros) of differences must be overcome to reach a deal. An original package of $1.3 trillion for the seven-year period (a 5% rise over the current budget) was revised in late 2012 to $943 billion, under pressure from the U.K. and its allies. London wants the total outlay lowered to under $900 billion, while Germany is aiming for steep but less drastic reductions than Britain. France and its backers want a final amount lifted closer to $980 billion, while E.U. officials reportedly view $920 billion as the most likely figure all members will be able to agree upon. That may be<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=67770&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>50 Years After Landmark Treaty, Can France and Germany Save Europe?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/22/50-years-after-landmark-treaty-can-france-and-germany-save-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming just 24 hours after Barack Obama’s star-studded presidential inauguration that drew millions of TV viewers around the globe, Tuesday’s celebrations in Berlin of the 1963 Franco-German friendship treaty never stood much chance of commanding the world’s rapt attention. The world would do well to stifle its yawn and reconsider. Fine, the anniversary festivities may not be the stuff of banner headlines or hours of live TV news coverage — not even Tuesday afternoon’s joint session of the two countries’ Parliaments (yes, that was the climax event). But despite that, the future of the Franco-German partnership and its historically central role in E.U. construction will be essential in shaping whether news coming out of Europe — and affecting the rest of the world — is mostly good or bad in coming years. It will also determine whether the recent clashes over the euro are troubling signs of things to come or a passing exception to the wider, 50-year rule of close partnership. (MORE: What You Missed While Not Watching Yesterday’s Presidential Inauguration) The Élysée Treaty feted Tuesday in Berlin was signed Jan. 22, 1963, by French President Charles de Gaulle and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. The accord sought to closely bind the two continental powers in mutual projects as a means of averting the clashes of interests that led them to wage three wars against each other during in the previous century. Though it followed the 1957 Treaty of Rome that laid the foundations for what became the E.U., the Franco-German partnership has served as the motor driving rising ambitions, expanding borders and deepening integration of what’s now a 27-nation, 500 million-person bloc. That’s not to say serious friction in the E.U.’s version of the U.S.-British “special relationship” hasn’t arisen over time. Then French President François Mitterrand actively sought to prevent German reunification he feared would leave the former foe too economically and politically powerful to equal. Mitterrand’s conservative successor Jacques Chirac, meantime, worked fruitfully with Social Democratic Chancellor Gerhard Schröder despite his personal dislike of his German opponent.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=65085&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Germany Seeks to Ban a Far-Right Party</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/14/germany-seeks-to-ban-a-far-right-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Levitin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A decade after trying&#8211;and failing&#8211;to impose a constitutional ban on the far right Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands, the National Democratic Party, Germany is attempting to outlaw it again. But this time lawmakers are confident they&#8217;ll succeed. Germany&#8217;s 16 state governors voted unanimously on Dec. 6 to seek a ban, and on Dec. 14 the country&#8217;s upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat, agreed to formally ask the Constitutional Court to rule the NPD an illegal political party. &#8220;We think it&#8217;s the right time politically,&#8221; says Dietmar Woidke, a Social Democratic Party lawmaker in Brandenburg&#8217;s state parliament, speaking ahead of the vote. The falling support of the NPD might seem to suggest otherwise. From its heyday in the 1969 election when the NPD polled at 4.3% of the national vote, its support slipped to 1.8% in the 2009 national elections. For the past decade, membership has been estimated at between 5,000 to 7,000, according to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany&#8217;s domestic intelligence agency. But there is another reason for the sense of urgency: revelations last year of a seven-year-long killing spree, allegedly by a neo-Nazi terror cell, that have sharpened fears of letting the far right practice politics in a country still grappling with its history of fascism. In November 2011, police in the city of Eisenach in eastern Germany found the bodies of Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Boehnhardt in a camper van following a botched bank robbery and the pair&#8217;s apparent suicide pact. The only known surviving member, Beate Zschaepe, turned herself in to police after attempting to burn down the flat she shared with Boehnhardt and Mundlos, according to Saxony police officials. Police officials said they found evidence in the van and the apartment linking the trio to the murders of eight Turkish men and one Greek man between 2000 and 2006. Zschaepe was charged last month as an accomplice to multiple counts of murder, attempted murder, armed robbery, as well as arson and membership in a terrorist organization, according to federal prosecutors. The revelations have<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=59817&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is the E.U. Nearing a Landmark Banking Deal?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/13/is-the-e-u-nearing-a-landmark-banking-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The crisis-battered euro zone got some rare cheer early Thursday with news that significant agreements had been made in creating a banking union across the European Union. Those unexpected advances by E.U. finance ministers towards establishing a Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) for the region will allow leaders of the 27-nation bloc meeting in Brussels Dec. 13-14 to hail another major step in getting Europe’s financial house in order. Some officials didn&#8217;t bother waiting for EU heads to huddle as they cheered Thursday&#8217;s progress towards correcting the weaknesses that created the single currency’s crisis in the first place. “This is an accord that creates unified bank supervision,” French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici told reporters early Thursday, following all-night negotiations with his peers. “Little by little, we’re resolving the crisis in the euro zone. It’s a signal to the rest of the world: you can have confidence in the euro.” (MORE: What Mario Monti’s Exit Tells Us About Europe’s Debt Crisis) Though thorny details remain to be thrashed out, Thursday’s breakthrough was a pleasant surprise in light of the clashing positions various EU members—notably France, Germany, and the U.K.—had previously staked out. Just as amazing, equal measures of compromise appear to have been made all around. The result was a considerable bound towards a final accord granting the European Central Bank (ECB) the supervisory and backstop role for all EU banks whose assets surpass $39 billion, or represent 20% of their home nation GDP. Barring any changes, around 200 of Europe&#8217;s big banks would come under unified supervision, which will cover up to 85% of banking sectors in highly consolidated markets like France. The SSM aims to create centralized oversight to prevent the kinds of lending and investment excesses by banks that occurred under national regulation—and transformed Europe’s sovereign debt problem into the full-blown euro crisis. The initiative will also allow the ECB to provide bail-out money directly to faltering banks, rather than forcing dangerously over-indebted national governments to continue assuming responsibility for those loans. If need be, meanwhile, the ECB will<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=59381&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Official: Eurozone Enters Second Recession In Three Years</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/15/its-official-eurozone-enters-second-recession-in-three-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley / Paris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The good news out of Europe Thursday was both fleeting and misleading: Germany and France performed better than expected in the third quarter, with the first- and second-largest economies in the euro zone both reporting modest 0.2% growth. The far more significant—and bad—news however came with confirmation that the eurozone, of which France and Germany are members, has sunk into recession for the second time since 2009. During the third quarter of 2012, the 17 economies sharing the euro shrunk  by a collective 0.1%, after declining 0.2% the previous term. That slide represented a 0.6% retreat compared to Q3, 2011. (MORE: In Autumn&#8217;s Challenges, A Series Of Existential Crises For the Euro) From there the picture darkens further. Most observers don’t expect year-end holiday spending by centime-pinching consumers to prevent further weakening across Europe in the final quarter of 2012. That’s causing many analysts to revise earlier forecasts of meager growth returning across the euro area in 2013. Such rising long-term pessimism is not just depressing for the 332 million people and countless businesses using the single currency. It’s also a real worry to countries around the world that rely on trade with the $12 trillion euro economic bloc to help fuel their own activity. And all that fretting won’t be over soon. “These numbers show we’re not only confronting a grave economic recession in the euro zone, but also looking at a spreading social crisis in which harsh austerity, increased taxes, and surging unemployment are bringing Europe to its knees,” says economist Marc Touati, president of the ACEDEFI financial consultancy. “The outlook makes it very unlikely we’ll see an end to this recession before spring, 2013—at earliest. That means we’ll probably see the euro zone economy shrinking next year by around 0.5%.”Any good news in Europe was short-lived, indeed. Word that both France and Germany had posted positive growth in the third quarter was quickly swamped by far less happy data. Even as it announced France had escaped predictions of a fourth-straight flat economy with its 0.2% Q3 advance,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=54721&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>France &#8216;Biggest Problem&#8217; in Euro Crisis, Say German Officials</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given their self-appointed role as the European Union’s austerity enforcers, German leaders aren’t exactly troubled by being among the least popular figures within the crisis-rocked euro zone. That’s doubly good, given the German penchant of wrapping tough love within even tougher language—a combo now raising hackles in France after months of it ticking off debt-laden nations of southern Europe. Officials in Paris have been stung by recent comments from Berlin targeting France as the “real problem” in Europe’s continuing debt emergency. Worse still, media reports say German government officials have asked economic advisers to identify urgent reforms the French should be applying—and presumably aren’t—to turn Europe’s second largest economy away from its slow slide towards calamity. What’s German for  &#8217;France sucks&#8217;? (PHOTOS: Europe Rises Up: Day of Anti-Austerity Rage Grips the Continent) “Is France the New Greece?” offered the Oct. 31 headline in Bild, echoing rising German concern about France becoming the euro’s weakest and most dangerous link. That tone isn’t just coming from Germany’s petulant tabloids. Of late, even staid German figures have expressed concern that French Socialist President François Hollande has employed largely superficial measures to address France’s budget deficit, but avoided deep structural reforms German experts call vital to restore lasting health to the slumping French economy. &#8220;The biggest problem at the moment in the euro zone is no longer Greece, Spain or Italy, instead it is France, because it has not undertaken anything in order to truly re-establish its competitiveness, and is even heading in the opposite direction,&#8221; German economist Lars Feld told Reuters Nov. 7. “France needs labor market reforms, it is the country among euro zone countries that works the least each year, so how do you expect any results from that? Things won&#8217;t work unless more efforts are made.&#8221; It gets worse for France from there. Feld’s comments came in a Reuters report revealing German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has ordered the board of economists advising the government to examine ways France needs to put its economic house into order. Responding to a flurry<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=54274&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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