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Doug Saunders (born 1967) is a well-known Canadian journalist, a weekly columnist and daily reporter for the Globe and Mail, a Canadian national newspaper based in Toronto, Canada. He is the newspaper's European Bureau Chief, based in London, in the United Kingdom.

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Europe chooses a quiet president

E uropeans had barely finished their dinners Thursday night when they were introduced to their George Washington, the man who had been selected by the leaders of their countries in a closed-door meeting to be the first permanent president of the world's ...

From DOUG SAUNDERS, Globe and Mail,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: European Union,  Catherine Ashton,  Hu Jintao,  Barack Obama,  Tony Blair

Brown aims for Afghan withdrawal timeline

B ritain and other NATO partners could join Canada in withdrawing from active combat in Afghanistan, shifting the war to the Afghans in a process that could begin by the end of next year, according to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Mr. Brown ...

From DOUG SAUNDERS, Globe and Mail,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NATO,  Gordon Brown,  Barack Obama,  David Cameron,  Hamid Karzai

Berliners show unity by toppling divisions of the past

F or a few hours Monday, Berliners made a show of dividing themselves again, taking sides around a make-believe Styrofoam party barrier on the site of a long-gone real concrete one. Berlin has spent the past 20 years erasing any trace of the ugly ...

From DOUG SAUNDERS, Globe and Mail,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: European Union,  Angela Merkel,  Mikhail Gorbachev,  Lech Walesa,  Hillary Rodham Clinton

The wall fell, and his world collapsed

A ram Radomski is the guy who had the fortune, by several accounts, to be the first Berliner to walk through the Wall that cold night 20 years ago. In that moment, after the young photographer had persuaded the guard at Bornholmer Strasse checkpoint ...

From DOUG SAUNDERS, Globe and Mail,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Angela Merkel

Half a life ago, Katrin blew the Wall down

T hrough the bare tile walls of her solitary-confinement cell in Leipzig, Katrin Hattenhauer could feel a rumbling. As she lay on her bare, plank bed, her petite frame shook with a vibration from the main street outside, the sound of something large and ...

From DOUG SAUNDERS, Globe and Mail,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mikhail Gorbachev

In Romania, he gave peace a chant

One moment, Ioan Savu was a factory worker, cowering from bullets in a seething crowd of desperate and angry people. The next, he had been thrust by that crowd onto the balcony usually reserved for the dictator, at the head of 1989's fastest, bloodiest ...

From DOUG SAUNDERS, Globe and Mail,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nicolae Ceausescu,  Lech Walesa

Intolerance creeps in among those who brought down the Iron Curtain

It sounded like a remark from the darkest recesses of European history, and was even more alarming coming from a party whose youthful liberalism played a key role in ending totalitarian rule in 1989. “I love my homeland, love the Hungarians and give ...

From DOUG SAUNDERS, Globe and Mail,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Lech Kaczynski,  European Parliament,  UK Conservative Party

Border guard's refusal to shoot let the Iron Curtain drop

Every few weeks, a retired Hungarian military officer named Bella Arpad walks across the unmarked stretch of road that separates the border and has a drink with the man who used to be the Austrian border guard, back when Europe had borders and guards. ...

From DOUG SAUNDERS, Globe and Mail,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mikhail Gorbachev

In Czechoslovakia, human network made the message go viral

d saunders@globeandmail.com In 1989, Jirka Meska was in the business of making information move, as fast as possible, around the communist state of Czechoslovakia. Officially, that meant he was among the country's highly protected elite software ...

From DOUG SAUNDERS, Globe and Mail,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Led Zeppelin (musician)

1989: The Berlin Wall's revolution moved faster than Twitter

d saunders@globeandmail.com In 1989, Jirka Meska was in the business of making information move, as fast as possible, around the communist state of Czechoslovakia. Officially, that meant he was among the country's highly protected elite software ...

From DOUG SAUNDERS, Globe and Mail,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Led Zeppelin (musician)

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