"Germany must have a free-trade zone in Europe. Germany also needs robust demand in Europe. Germany also wants prudence in borrowing practices. And Germany must not see a return to the anti-German feeling of previous epochs."
"When workers in most industries take issue with the management, they rely on the media to publicise their cause. It follows that when media workers have a grievance..."
"In early December I received a call from Fred Burton, Stratfor's Vice President of Intelligence. He told me he had received information indicating our website had been hacked and our customer credit card and other information had been stolen."
"If you see a fork in the road, take it! For sixty years, Britain has been following Yogi Berra's advice in its relations with Europe. At the end of 2011, the question is: can it continue to take both roads at once? If not, which should it choose?"
"What they are doing since they came into power is morbid. It is extremely morbid to sit in power and deconstruct the state. It is morbid to have a parliament without parliamentary democracy, so that every day we witness autocracy and arrogance..."
The Human Rights Watch international NGO has published its 22nd annual World Report, summarizing human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011.
The agreement between Belgrade and Pristina, to which Tanjug had access, was entitled IBM (fn1) Agreed Conclusions, and its text follows:
A spokesman for the NATO troops in Kosovo, KFOR, says that this international mission "does not think there are parallel and illegal institutions in northern (Serb-dominated) Kosovo".
"What there is in northern Kosovo is a basic distrust between the authorities in Priština and most of the population of northern Kosovo. That cannot be solved by next week but I think that it is immensely important, and I gave that message very clearly in Priština..."