It is not the economy, elections are the problem!
By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, April 4, 2011
The EU Summit of March was a gathering of EU leaders with tight hands. The only one who didn’t expect that, was Enda Kenny - the fresh Irish prime minister. He asked his colleagues for easier bail-out terms. His argument? He was just elected on a promise to get a better deal for his country.
Herman Van Rompuy, one year EU President
By: N. Peter Kramer | Thursday, December 2, 2010
In the beginning of this year US President Obama rejected an EU-US summit, for reasons that ‘the Europeans had to make up their minds who represents the EU’ according to White House officials. This problem seems solved: November 20, Obama was in Europe and met Van Rompuy in an EU-US summit.
Cross-strait policy is acceptable to the majority of Taiwanese voters
By: N. Peter Kramer | Wednesday, December 1, 2010
“The results of the special municipality elections in Taiwan, November 27, show that the government’s cross-strait policy is acceptable to the majority of Taiwan’s people”, according to President Ma Ying-jeou.
Was Obama’s ‘hope’ only a hype?
By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, November 15, 2010
President Obama’s behaviour after his defeat in the midterm elections was astounding. Early in the morning after Election Day, the White House released a picture of the President on the phone, congratulating John Boehner, the next Republican Speaker of the House. That's where the clue is!
Democrats at risk of an epic defeat
By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, September 20, 2010
Democrats are facing large-scale losses in the midterm congressional elections on November 2. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 37 of the 100 Senate seats are up for grabs. The result will have a defining impact on the second half of President Obama’s first term.
By: N. Peter Kramer
