(Blair) looking to jumpstart the Middles East peace process. |
(Blair) was saying that one way or another inaction was not a possibility -- there has to be action of one kind or another. |
After September 11 governments everywhere have had to plan what they would do in the event of a major civil emergency, especially the UK government, |
Although he has reaffirmed his readiness to work with European leaders in the Balkans -- |
are not remotely on the same scale as the U.S.. |
Basically what it boils down to is whether Angela Merkel detaches the Greens from Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder into a coalition with her and the Free Democrats, or whether Chancellor Schroeder detaches the Free Democrats from Angela Merkel's side. |
Basically, he has to go back to the drawing board ... to have another go at it, ... It's not a crisis or a complete disaster. It's a mess and it's a humiliation. |
Blair came through the potentially difficult ordeal by confronting the main issues, by acknowledging how the Iraq issue had divided his party, |
Both sides know that with stock markets everywhere in free fall it is hardly the time to spark an all-out trade war. |
Bush isn't going to follow the detail to the same extent (as Clinton), but he is helping to put his imprimatur on that process in an important week, when Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern put forward their latest proposals to revive the peace process, |
Bush will be there to show that the rest of the world is still interested in this peace process and to kick it along. |
But a window of opportunity is seen for this now, the political demands for it are growing across the world all the time, and there is immense pressure on Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, |
But it comes at a time when the IRA is under intensive pressure. It has been put on the defensive over the arrests in Colombia of IRA members working with FARC rebels and there are allegations it was involved in a burglary of Special Branch offices in Belfast in March, |
But it comes at a time when the IRA is under intensive pressure. It has been put on the defensive over the arrests in Colombia of IRA members working with FARC rebels and there are allegations it was involved in a burglary of Special Branch offices in Belfast in March. |
But one thing he didn't address, having raised in his speech the suggestion that politics in France had to change, he didn't have anything to suggest how the political system should change, |