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Elmar Brok
Elmar Brok is former Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the European Parliament and senior official of the CDU Party in Germany.
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Rescuing a Revolution
Elmar Brok, Jas Gawronski and Charles Tannock Series: Europe at Home and Abroad 2008-05-08Brussels – There is no more depressing sight in politics than a leader who, desperate to cling to power, ruins his country in the process. By his recent actions, President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine now looks like he has joined the long list of rulers who have sacrificed their country’s future simply to prolong their misrule. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 29968
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The Road Map Includes Damascus
Elmar Brok, Charles Tannock and Jana Hybaskova Series: The World in Words 2006-08-28Powerful countries know that it is dangerous to be seen to flinch, because enemies take heart and allies’ knees begin to knock. A great power also knows that if it sets out on a military adventure without setting achievable goals, it can get into bad trouble. What’s true for great powers is doubly true for beleaguered Israel, which failed to dismantle Hezbollah’s power over Lebanon. But the Lebanon war’s failure may yet provide an opening to peace if Israel is bold enough to seize it. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 19449
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Ukraine's Borgia Campaign
Elmar Brok, Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Charles Tannock Series: Human Rights 2004-10-06With its accusations about poisonings and conspiracies, Ukraine's presidential election campaign is a spectacle only the Borgias could love. Ten days ago, Viktor Yushchenko, the opposition candidate for president (who is leading in the polls), disappeared from the campaign trail. He re-surfaced in Vienna recovering from what at first was thought to be food poisoning. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 25138
