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| Compiled on January 23, 2013, 07:21 PM CET |
| CAMERON'S COLLISON COURSE London Takes Major Gamble with EU Referendum David Cameron has put himself on a collision course with the rest of Europe by pledging an 'in or out' referendum on Britain's EU membership by 2017. He is demanding special privileges for his country and putting Britain's partners under pressure -- it's a high-risk gamble that has angered Berlin and Paris. |
| CAMERON'S SPEECH 'The Danger Is that Europe Will Fail' Read the full text of British Prime Minister David Cameron's Wednesday speech on his country's plan to hold a referendum on the future of its membership in the European Union. |
| OPINION Europe's Scaredy-Cat Fear drove David Cameron to promise Britain a referendum on EU membership. Fear of his party, fear of voters, and fear of the EU itself, which he neither fully understands nor has ever really been interested in. He wants Europe to be a free trade zone with beach access. He missed an opportunity on Wednesday to haul Britain back to the center of Europe. |
| ELECTIONS IN ISRAEL Netanyahu Wins Election But Emerges Weaker The slogan of Benjamin Netanyahu's election campaign had been "a strong leader for a strong nation," but on Tuesday he suffered a major setback. With significant gains in the center-left, the incumbent right-wing Israeli leader could have trouble building a stable government. |
| FORMER RUSSIAN FINANCE MINISTER ALEXEI KUDRIN 'We Have to Take a Chance with More Democracy' Alexei Kudrin is seen as having good chances to succeed Dmitry Medvedev as Russian prime minister. In a SPIEGEL interview, he speaks about the need for more democracy in his country, President Putin's pragmatism and the dangers still facing the euro zone. |
| THE WORLD FROM BERLIN 'Merkel and Hollande Seem to Get Along After All' Tuesday's celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the German-French friendship treaty masked deep differences between the nations. But those differences have always existed, and the countries seem committed to keep on tackling them with compromises that are crucial for Europe, write German commentators. |
| SPIEGEL BLOG Surrogate Mother (Not Yet) Sought for Neanderthal An interview published last week by SPIEGEL with American genetic scientist George Church has sparked frenetic media speculation about a supposed plan to bring the Neanderthal back from the dead. Church feels his remarks were mistranslated, but it was other media outlets that twisted his words. |
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