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<title><![CDATA[Jochen Bittner - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/30425.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jochen Bittner]]></description><category domain="30425">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Greta Thunberg's Climate Panic Grabs World's Attention]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/empowering-the-planet/greta-thunbergs-climate-panic-has-our-attention-now-what/ar-AAGSiN2</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jochen Bittner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[HAMBURG, Germany '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' The most telling words about a country are often those that are impossible to translate. In the case of Germany, one such word is '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Zweckpessimismus.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' It means, roughly, pessimism on purpose '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the attitude of expecting the worst in order to be able...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time for Angela Merkel to Leave]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/opinion/angela-merkel-chancellor-resign.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jochen Bittner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The German chancellor has done an admirable job over her 13 years in office. But her stoic pragmatism is out of step with the times.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Merkel to Blame for Brexit?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/opinion/is-merkel-to-blame-for-brexit.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jochen Bittner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Her mixed messages on labor mobility and refugees drove Britain away. Now she has a chance to fix things.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Trump Gets Right About Europe]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/opinion/trump-tariffs-trade-germany-europe.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jochen Bittner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mr. Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s anger at America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s allies embodies, however unpleasantly, a not unreasonable point of view, and one that the rest of the world ignores at its peril: The global world order is unbalanced and inequitable. And unless something is done to correct it soon, it will...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Will Win the New Great Game?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/opinion/russia-china-west-power.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jochen Bittner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The West is not in a new Cold War. It's an old-fashioned fight with China and Russia for power and influence.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Imagining a Post-Merkel Germany]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/opinion/merkel-germany-coalition.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jochen Bittner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A tactical retreat could help put the focus back on economic issues.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is This the West's Weimar Moment?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/opinion/is-this-the-wests-weimar-moment.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jochen Bittner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WE Germans can never escape the trauma of our recent history. That has rarely been clearer than today, as we look around our Continent and across the Atlantic. There are almost too many differences to mention between what happened in the 1930s over here and what is going on today. And it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the European Center Hold?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/24/opinion/can-the-european-center-hold.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jochen Bittner</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'RUN!'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' shouts a voice, captured, for all the world to hear, on cellphone images shot in the seconds after two bombs exploded at Brussels Airport on Tuesday morning. Travelers from around the world flee a shattered building, fearful of more bombs.The videos from Brussels are a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time For Greece to Leave Euro]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/opinion/jochen-bittner-its-time-for-greece-to-leave-the-euro.html?ref=opinion&amp;gwh=823593A4D952228CA90AF5A841394853&amp;gwt=pay&amp;assetType=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jochen Bittner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Does democracy trump debt? Of course not, not even in Europe. No bank clerk here would be impressed if a family told her that they had voted to have the terms of their housing loan renegotiated '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not how loans, either personal or international, work.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the West Turns on Itself]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/12/opinion/jochen-bittner-can-angela-merkel-be-the-next-leader-of-the-free-world.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jochen Bittner</author>
							<description><![CDATA[HAMBURG, Germany '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Consider the following sentences. First: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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