Sarkozy greets picnicking workers with tear gas
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Two hundred workers from ArcelorMittal’s Florange steel plant in France’s Lorraine region had planned a mass picnic Thursday morning in front of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s campaign HQ in Paris’ 15th arrondissement. But th...
UKIP polling 3rd in London - LibDems joint 4th.
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UKIPers should be jubilant and LibDems extremely jittery in equal measures tonight - this YouGov poll shows UKIP in third place in London with 7%, while Nick Clegg's party are duking it out with the Green Party for fourth. The trio of Livingston/Joh...
François Bayrou (MoDem) : “Le fédéralisme que je défends est de type coopératif, il est décentralisé et respecte les nations et les libertés”
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1. Les Cabris de l’Europe : François Bayrou, en une phrase, pourquoi êtes-vous candidat à l’élection présidentielle française de 2012 ? François Bayrou : Je porte un projet de vérité, pour rompre la spirale de l’endettement et dire...
The real lesson of the 1930s: cuts work
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Lots of people, especially politicians, think they have grasped 'the lesson of the 1930s'. That lesson, in their minds, goes something like this. Unconstrained capitalism caused the Great Crash, whose effects were then exacerbated in the US by the l...
George Osborne's budget will mirror Europe's Ebola economics | Polly Toynbee
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From Greece to Germany Europe's been seized by a collective psychosis – our own government cuts to the bone voluntarilyNever mind the barbecue set, did David Cameron bring home an economics lesson from President Obama? While UK growth stagnates, Ob...
Ingen tvingar Linander rösta för datalagringen
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Centerns folkvalde riksdagsman Johan Linander leker biskop Brask och säger att han “är tvungen” att rösta för datalagringsdirektivet. Det är han inte alls, kan jag berätta för honom som en folkvald parlamentariker till en annan. Tr...
Ingen tvingar Linander rösta för datalagringen
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Centerns folkvalde riksdagsman Johan Linander leker biskop Brask och säger att han “är tvungen” att rösta för datalagringsdirektivet. Det är han inte alls, kan jag berätta för honom som en folkvald parlamentariker till en annan. Tr...
Avoiding a Lost Generation
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Young people were innocent bystanders in the global financial crisis, but they may well end up paying the heaviest price for the policy mistakes that have led us to where we are today. Young people will have to pay the taxes to service the debts accu...
Catering to Student Wants or Needs?
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It is common now for our students to be asked what they think about their pedagogical experience. One of the most important aspects on which our students are asked to comment is feedback and what has emerged is a much better understanding of what stu...
The AUD is not your friend
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Well, not if you are short the AUD because of all that hard landing business. Or, if you are an Australian exporter.The Australian dollar has long been seen as a China/commodities trade,...
Turkey one of the “Countries under surveillance” in Reporters Without Borders’ annual list of “enemies of the internet”. Turkish cybersphere news in Turkish and in English
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Anonymous Ve Anonimlik Vurgusu Anonymous yazı dizimize kaldığımız yerden devam ediyoruz. Konuğumuz Sosyal Kafa TV programından tanıdığımız Erkan Saka sosyalsosyal.com için bir yazdı; ‘Enemies of the internet’ named from BBC...
Environment: Act now or face costly consequences, warns OECD
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“As countries struggle with the immediate challenges of stretched public finances and high unemployment, they must not neglect the longer term. Action needs to be taken now to prevent irreversible damage …” Another major warning, now from O...
May we present: The Israeli Greens
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By Yoav Shemer Kunz. Tel Aviv – The Israeli Green Movement (‘Hatnua Hayeruka’ in Hebrew) was created as a party in 2008 by different civil society movements and NGOs. In the 2009 general elections it obtained 1 per cent of the votes, or 27,737...
The Closer
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____________Round-upThe S&P 500 hit 1,400 for the first time since June 2008, providing traders with yet another ‘psychological marker’ (Reuters). The DJIA has...
Politics Takes Center Stage on Hungary’s National Holiday
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“We’re on the road to meet different kinds of people, hear different kinds of political views,” said a university student upon taking on Budapest with a friend to sample the potpourri of political and cultural events available on Thursday.
Complacency does not create jobs, only unemployment
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It is a disgrace that Clegg and Cameron can describe this week’s employment figures as an improvement, when in Ogmore and Bridgend almost 500 more people are out of work in the last year. This Tory government, propped up by fellow-travelling LibDem...
Bonds And Currencies Trade Lower On Exhaustion Of LTRO Financing And Operation Twist Commencing Both The End Of Fiat Money And The Beginning Of The Second Great Depression
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Financial Market Report For March 14, 2012 The 10 30 US Sovereign Debt Yield Curve, $TNX:$TYX, steepened once again forcing Bonds, BND, sharply lower again today, as US Treasuries, ZROZ, EDV, TLT, IEF, IEI, fell strongly lower, forcing longer duratio...
Site néerlandais du parti d’extrême droite PVV : le Parlement européen demande unanimement une condamnation par le gouvernement néerlandais .
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Le Parlement européen a unanimement demandé mardi au gouvernement néerlandais de condamner la création par son allié d’extrême droite d’un site internet incitant à la délation vis-à-vis des immigrés d’Europe de l’Est...
Finding Foreign Policy in the French Elections
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PARIS – The French presidential elections are a little more than a month away, and foreign policy has played only a minor role in the campaign. The focus on jobs and economic growth has allowed the Socialist challenger, François Hollande, to slide...
Mayo on Greg Smith and the ABCs of change
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Merry Sheils, a finance writer and former portfolio manager, submits this guest post for FT Alphaville after an interview with Mike Mayo on Wednesday. She blogs at merryssimplefinance.blogspot.com....
Will the European technocrats overcome the politicians?
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Does the new government in Greece demonstrate the start of a worrying trend? - 1. Analysis / Economic and monetary policy, Greece...
Europeans can't jump
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Since my friends from Breughel encouraged me to disagree more, I suppose I have to. But seriously, most of their post of why there is no pan-European blogosphere is completely correct. There isn't one for very same reason that there is no pan-Europea...
Ireland ‘disappears’ from ECB collateral list [updated]
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Update: Just to make clear (in addition to the ECB’s tweet below) that Ireland’s odd absence was an error after all. It couldn’t really have been anything else....
All politics is local, especially in Kosovo
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The government calls elections for May. As ever, Kosovo presents problems...
All politics is local, especially in Kosovo
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AND they're off! Earlier this week Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic, speaker of the Serbian parliament, announced that Serbia would hold general and local elections on May 6th. The country's political parties have been in election mode for months. But Presid...
Actual and cosmetic changes in debt sustainability
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Authors: Dana Andreicut, Silvia MerlerThe leaked Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) produced by the IMF in February 2012 looked into the economic developments that would arise in Greece following two different scenarios, a baseline and an alternative...
EU carbon levy: try to avoid air turbulences
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Authors: André Sapir, Georg ZachmannOn March 12 the CEOs of Airbus and of eight other European aviation and airline companies urged the leaders of France, Germany, Spain and the UK to solve a dispute with the US, China, India, Russia and 23 other co...
Luxembourg Operating Plan - now also available!
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We have received updated information from The European Asylum Support Office and the Operating Plan on Luxembourg is now uploaded - this time it should be correct. You will find it at the bottom of the European Commission's EASO website.
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