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France and Germany are to sign a new treaty on Tuesday aimed at breathing new life into their place at the centre of the European Union.
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Franco-German treaty a step toward ‘European army,’ Merkel says
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-january-22-2019/‘Let’s build a real European army to protect ourselves and have a real foreign policy,’ France’s Macron says amid growing rift with US
For years the US has stopped this portion of the original treaty from going forward. The idea was the US controlled NATO was Europe's military.
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French president Emmanuel Macron hosts world’s business elite
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-f...-idUSKCN1PF1GHVERSAILLES, France (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron told dozens of the world’s most powerful executives on Monday that he would not follow the path of guillotined French royals and would continue to reform the French economy despite a sometimes violent popular revolt.Comment
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andBeneath rise in extremist murders, ADL sees a political trend line
https://www.jpost.com/American-Polit...nd-line-578385"Right-wing extremists were linked to all of the 50 extremist-related deaths in 2018– making them responsible for more deaths than in any year since 1995," the ADL said in a statement on the study.
Every single murder committed by an extremist in America in 2018 was motivated by far-right politics.
That's the assertion of an explosive study published Wednesday by the Anti-Defamation League, which investigated 50 deaths last year– itself a 35% spike in extremist-related murders over the prior year.
"Right-wing extremists were linked to all of the 50 extremist-related deaths in 2018– making them responsible for more deaths than in any year since 1995," the ADL said in a statement on the study.
That year saw the Oklahoma City bombing, the deadliest domestic terrorist attack in US history.
https://wedg.millenniumweekend.org/f...onth-in-PolandBritish Jews reclaiming German roots in path to Europe after Brexit
https://www.timesofisrael.com/britis...-after-brexit/It also fed into social schisms that saw the number of anti-Semitic incidents and other hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales rise from 52,465 in 2014-15 to 80,393 in 2016-17.
France and Germany hope to revive EU with Aachen treaty
https://euobserver.com/political/143979"74 years, a single human lifetime, after the end of the second world war, what seems self-evident is being called into question again," German chancellor Angela Merkel warned at the ceremony.
"That's why, first of all, there needs to be a new commitment toward our responsibility within the EU, a responsibility held by Germany and France," she added.
French president Emmanuel Macron warned at the signing that those "who forget the value of Franco-German reconciliation are making themselves accomplices of the crimes of the past. Those who spread lies are hurting the same people they are pretending to defend, by seeking to repeat history."Comment
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