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July 27, 2010

EU Leaders Must Take on Welfare State

Guy Sorman, Japan Times

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PARIS — In the Western part of Europe — the part that former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld maliciously labeled "Old Europe" — almost every government is in deep political trouble. The United Kingdom's new coalition government may be the exception — for now. In the European Union's big member states, the popularity ratings of leaders — Nicolas Sarkozy in France, Silvio Berlusconi in Italy, Angela Merkel in Germany and Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in Spain — hover around 25 percent or worse.

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