Germany: watching on the Rhine | Editorial
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Elections in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia always carry special political resonance for GermanyElections in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia always carry special political resonance for Germany as a whole – and even for Europ...
The Closer
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ROUND-UPThe 10-year Bund yield fell to a record low (Wall Street Journal) and the S&P 500 hit its lowest level since February, closing down 1.11 per cent at 1,338.35 (Reuters)....
Stanislaus Joyce
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After the writers’ workshop this evening I told my tale about Joyce’s Martello tower and about bumping into Seamus Heaney. Fellow scribe Cleve Moffet bested me with the following tale. As a twenty-something young American he went to Perug...
Italian communists march in protest at Monti
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Up to 40,000 communists marched in Rome Sunday to protest against the policies of the ‘technocrat’ Italian government of Mario Monti. A sea of red flags flowed through the centre of Rome, from the Piazza della Repubblica to the Colloseum.
Return of the left
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When the result of the Nordrhein-Westfalen results emerged last night, Hannelore Kraft of the SPD, the woman who until the election ruled Germany’s most populous state, ran over to her deputy Sylvia Löhrmann, lead candidate for the Green party, a...
France: The Little-known Abolition of Slavery Memorial in Nantes
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Website citizen-nantes.com reported that [fr]: “On the evening of Saturday March 24, 2012, the ‘Collectif du 10 Mai', a group of Afro-Caribbean associations from Nantes, invited the people of Nantes to a ‘Gathering in honour of...
Comment on Generation YES is back! by Stephen
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Have you read the amendment? That is not what it does. Also the bank debts are not included in the national debt.
World Government Bonds And Emerging Market Bonds Tumble As Global Banks, Brazil, India, And Commodities Lead Stocks Lower Again
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Financial Market report for May 14, 2012 Introduction The tumble lower today in World Treasury Bonds, BWX, and, Emerging Market Bonds, EMB, reflects that the global government finance bubble has burst, and that the debt trade which has supported m...
Which Prime for Hollande?
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Tomorrow, François Hollande will appoint his first Prime minister just after the transfer of powers between him and his predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy. Some people are regularly put forward with insistence: Jean-Marc Ayrault, current MP-mayor of Nante...
‘Your differences are small compared to the size of your debt to your country’
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That’s our (no doubt dodgy it was: fixed) paraphrasing of President Karolos Papoulias of Greece, during Sunday’s talks with the leaders of the New Democrats, PASOK,...
William Armstrong on “AKP & Fethullah Gülen alliance”, Presidential system debates, New constitution writing…
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TweetShare via emailNew constitution formula takes shape from Hurriyet Daily News Parliament’s Constitutional Reconciliation Commission started writing the new constitution beginning with the section on “fundamental rights and freedoms.” Charte...
Labor Pains: Why the Transatlantic Jobs Crisis is Worse than it Appears
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Even in the midst of austerity measures in Europe and tightening budgets in the United States, more needs to be done to prevent the current crisis situation from turning into the new normal.
The mysteriously falling US trading volumes
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Does anybody know what’s been driving down daily US trading volumes in recent years?…That chart is from the Credit Suisse Trading Strategy team, who write in a...
Is ACTA our only worry?
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While everyone in Europe is protesting against the ACTA treaty, the EU is revising its own intellectual property regulation.
A true union of peoples? (Part 3)
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What ideas follow from can be drawn from the reflections on Europe from the inside?Firstly, it’s clear that there’s no “silver bullet” which can create a true union of peoples and that it can’t be done quickly. It’s much easier to identi...
Silence of statues in Budapest's Memento Park, House of Terror
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Budapest’s Park, built shortly after the fall of communism, commemorates the visual iconography of four decades under communist rule in the Hungarian capital. In sharp contrast to its frozen lethargy, the House of Terror bursts with life. Could thi...
Is the single currency worth saving at all? | Aditya Chakrabortty
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Eurozone officials must have guessed at the upheaval and social unrest caused by their austerity measures – and imposed them anywayNever in the history of the British media have so many commentators lavished such intense concern on so abstract a co...
German voters must break the Merkel mindset that got them into this | Robin Wells
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Greece's euro membership was as much the German elite's fault as anyone's. Can it find the leadership to resolve the crisis?Sometimes, just sometimes, economics and politics are like physics – one can recognize immutable forces. One of those times...
UN climate talks reconvene against background of mistrust
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“Negotiators at odds over how to extend Kyoto Protocol, raise up to $100 billion a year for poor nations and share burden of future emissions cuts…” (Source: AlertNet) Global climate circus travels on but the world will not notice. An...
Back to the future or forward to the past – EU and its minorities
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Again the situation of national minorities causes discrepancies in inner-EU relations as Lithuania introduces new hurdles for its Polish minority. Europe should have left behind such policies but not just against the background of the messy economic...
Hollande-Merkel: don't expect a new dawn just yet | George Irvin
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Can the French and German leaders find a way forward on the growth v austerity debate in which neither of them loses face?As the new French president, François Hollande, prepares to meet Angela Merkel officially for the first time, some commentators...
#pub204 öğrencilerinden Pinterest galerileri (@bilgi_pr)
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TweetShare via email Final sınavının ilk sorusuna verilen cevapları burada bulabilirsiniz. En ilgi çekici galeri buradan paylaşırsanız pek güzel olur… Ders Twitter hashtagi: #pub204 Sorumuz buydu. Sorularımız devam edecek… İst...
Europe – The view from across the Atlantic
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After a week of change in Europe, it was no surprise what was on the minds of many of my contacts in the US this week. Both in Boston and in Washington I was quizzed about the new French President, Greek efforts to form a coalition, and most importan...
For a Number of Convicts, Writes Le Monde, the Soviet Gulag Was a Positive Learning Experience
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Pour tous ceux qui sont arrivés enfants au goulag et y sont devenus adultes, ce fut un épisode douloureux mais aussi un moment de formation, une école. After the first moment of satisfaction of learning that a book (Déportés en URSS) has been...
[JPM Whale-Watching Tour] Two billion dollar ‘hedge’
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Trust us, it isn’t easy to lose $2bn in a “synthetic credit portfolio” over five weeks from the beginning of April, as JPMorgan’s Chief Investment Office managed to do....
It's kicking off
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NOTHING spices up a wartime drama like a game of football between enemy sides. "Joyeux Noël" (2005) tells the true story of British and German soldiers leaving the trenches to play a friendly match in no man's land during a Christmas truce in 1914.
Poland's young funky priests recruiting at Euro 2012
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Empty tribunes of the PGE Arena (the recently built Gdańsk stadium), freshly laid grass and five set of robes proudly rustling it. After all Europe's high-profile sporting event is also a chance to score and join the team of God, according to the Gd...
German state elections send Merkel an economic message | Henning Meyer
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Europe can learn from the victory of Social Democrats offering Germans not austerity but sensible fiscal policiesThe recent elections in North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW) have produced a great result for the German Social Democratic party (SPD) and a cru...
Some chasm-like eurozone bond spreads
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Based on Tradeweb data (with a h/t to the FT’s Tracy Alloway),Spanish 10-year government bond yields rose to as high as 6.30 per cent on Monday, with the spread to Bunds...
Blockupy Frankfurt is a glimmer of hope in times of austerity | John Holloway
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Popular protests such as Blockupy offer an alternative to capitalism for those facing a life hunting through garbage cansNow, more than ever, the world looks two ways at once. Which way it turns will depend significantly on the protests announced for...
