Marshall Plan
Six years of "total war" in Europe, 1939–1945, brought destruction and economic ruin to both victors and vanquished. Only the United States emerged from World War II...
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Washington (dpa) - The speech was without fanfare and lasted only
12 minutes, but it signaled a shift in the post-war era heralded
great changes to come.
On J...
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LONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer on
Wednesday hailed as a "Marshall Plan" for climate change news
that the United States will set up a multi-billion dollar fund
to help de...
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Copenhagen/Washington (dpa) - Jacqueline McGlade, the EU's chief
environment expert, believes Europe needs a Marshall plan of
investment - up to several percentage points of...
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Hamburg (dpa) - South African cleric Desmond Tutu was Sunday
awarded one of Germany's most prestigious honours, the Marion
Doenhoff Prize for International Reconciliation an...
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…will design the second (or third, depending on how you count) tower at the World Trade Center site, Larry Silverstein announced today. It’s a move with clear benefits, as Foster is the...
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For the U.S. to gain the upper hand in innovation, the government needs to partner with free enterprise. That's a key premise of tech expert John Kao's forthcoming book, "Innovation Nation." Kao do...
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OSLO, Jan 29 (Reuters) - U.S.-hosted climate talks in Hawaii
this week need to focus more on agreeing curbs to greenhouse gas
emissions by major polluters, the U.N.'s top climate change
official s...
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Key policies of French presidential candidates Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal:SARKOZYECONOMY: Would cut taxes and payroll fees, and loosen hiring and firing rules. Though generally pro-market, ...
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Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson called Thursday for a focus on fighting poverty and hunger in the developing world, arguing hunger and overpopulation are the greatest looming thre...
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Kiev (dpa) - The battle for geopolitical influence over Eurasia in
the 21st century is at a fair stalemate in Ukraine, where Western
laziness has been almost perfectly balan...
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