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popularity has slipped every month since he was elected to 41% last
month, a level half that of the German leader's. Merkel's electoral
calculations could still be upset by the need for a Spanish bailout in the
spring, predicted by senior people in Brussels, or by political and market
turbulence around the same time in Italy.
With unemployment soaring across Europe – albeit not in Germany –
and years of austerity impacting on European societies, the sense among
senior policy-makers and diplomats in Brussels is that something will have
to give, that economic shrinkage rather than deficits and debt is the bigger
problem, that German rigour will need to be relaxed, that it is time for
French expansionary policy. There is little sign the Germans are listening.
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Daily News Digest December 15, 2012
Two Years of Cablegate as Bradley Manning
Testifies for the First Time
By
Julian Assange
Editor-in-Chief and Founder, WikiLeaks
Thursday, November 29th, Bradley Manning testified for the first
time since his arrest two and a half years ago in Baghdad. Today also
marks the two-year anniversary of the first front pages around the world
from Cablegate, an archive of 251,287 U.S. State Department diplomatic
cables -- messages sent between the State Department and its embassies,
consulates and diplomatic missions around the world. In collaboration
with a network of more than 100 press outlets we revealed the full
spectrum of techniques used by the United States to exert itself around the
world. The young intelligence analyst Bradley Manning was detained as
an alleged source.