more Palestinian Authority, not less. |
performance of great defiance and passion. |
pretty grumpy and imperious. |
Quite a lot of agreement exists on the general principle of avoiding the over-production of food. |
Standing shoulder to shoulder with the U.S. in the war against terrorism, Blair knows, he has made Britain a potential terrorist target too. |
stricter standards applied to those who influence impressionable young people. |
such a hot potato that it was dropped. |
The British and Irish remain hopeful all the same that some of the presidential stardust will rub off. |
The disagreements which undoubtedly exist... could not be eliminated today. |
The fact that George Bush has come to Belfast to meet Tony Blair in this location ... is in a sense a mark of respect for Tony Blair, an attempt to show outside world -- because George Bush doesn't voyage outside the United States all that easily -- it's a sign that he takes him seriously and listens to his advice. It gives him some sort of political payback, |
The French have sense of urgency |
The Jewish community in Europe is much heartened by this conference. They felt European leaders were in denial about the increase in anti-Semitic attacks, |
The whole chemistry of the relationship between Moscow and the West is really changing now, |
There is skepticism among unionists as the IRA is blamed for the huge Northern Bank robbery last year and the question they are asking is: Will that money be used as pensions for old IRA fighters or to buy new arms, |
There's a lot of breast thumping as leaders take up their negotiation positions, and certainly Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder have indicated that this summit could turn into a real standoff, |