According to the conservative German newspaper Die Welt(German, free registration required), the EU is about to send a team to Jerusalem to seriously investigate alligations of EU funding for the Palestinian Authorities being embezzled to the benefit of Palestinian terrorist organisations (also - EUObserver)
This is big - and will be even bigger for the French right. Alain Jupp?, brilliant but aloof former Prime Minister in the first instance found guilty of illegal party financing - reports from the BBC, the NYTimes, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Sueddeutsche Zeitung (German), CNNenespanol (Spanish), and of course, LeMonde (French).
Not quite kissing and making up, but Irish PM Bertie Ahern and DUP leader Iain Paisley had a ‘constructive and businesslike’ meeting in London on Thursday - the first meeting between the two for five years.
The Spiegel reports that Gerd Schr?der and George Bush are to kiss and make up (article in German). The White House has invited Schr?der to lunch, where he will discuss with Bush ‘the continuation of transatlantic relations’, as well as developments in Iraq, the Near East and Afghanistan.
According to the French daily LeMonde, France and Germany intend to establish a prominent European think tank, based in Brussels, to advance European ideas on the World stage (English report from EuObserver).
Davos, Switzerland - Lo?c Le Meur has some videos from a blogging panel at the 2004 World Economic Forum.
Europe: adding value, changing quickly - last Monday, the President of the Commission spoke at the LSE about the prospects for a European Constitution (pdf).
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