The Closer
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ROUND-UPHome sales and durable goods data cheered US stocks: the S&P 500 closed up 0.9 per cent to 1,331.85. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.7 per cent (Bloomberg)....
Italy passes hire and fire labour ‘reforms’ but no hope of jobs or growth
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The government of Mario Monti has passed labour ‘reforms’ that will make it easier for employers to fire workers. The vote, after months of haggling in parliament, came as workers and their unions protested against the measures that seek...
What would Rousseau make of our selfish age? | Terry Eagleton
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300 years after Rousseau's birth, the great Enlightenment philosopher would surely be horrified by modern EuropeFew thinkers have left their fingerprints on the modern age as indelibly as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the tricentenary of whose birth we cele...
Eretz3: Northern Ireland, Jihad and my unpublished Reply to a “Palestinian” diplomat
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Today Queen Elizabeth sealed the Irish peace process with a handshake and a private talk with Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness. He was the former chief of the IRA, responsible for mayhem and the murder of Earl Mountbat...
Eretz3: Northern Ireland, Jihad and my unpublished Reply to a "Palestinian diplomat"
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Today Queen Elizabeth sealed the Irish peace process with a handshake and a private talk with Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness. He was the former chief of the IRA, responsible for mayhem and the murder of Earl Mountbatten, t...
My Sustainability Challenge: A week in review
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Being sustainable for a week was fun in an “it’s worth punishing myself arbitrarily on occasion” kind of way. I have to imagine that this is how the EU views EU Sustainable Energy Week as well. It is about the Continue reading →...
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For UK politics the eurozone crisis will bring the deluge | Vernon Bogdanor
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Only the gold standard and the winter of discontent have caused similar convulsions in Britain's 20th century historyThe eurozone crisis is now entering its final phase. This week European leaders – the council president, the commission president,...
Europe’s highly skilled 20-30 year olds in times of austerity
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Raya Kardasheva is a Lecturer in European Politics at King’s College London. Hello Europe, here they are – the educated, the jobless, the hungry and the ruthless. They studied the European project. They believed in the European project. They...
Europe’s highly skilled 20-30 year olds in times of austerity
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Raya Kardasheva is a Lecturer in European Politics at King’s College London. Hello Europe, here they are – the educated, the jobless, the hungry and the ruthless. They studied the European project. They believed in the European project. They...
Falcone, the SEC complaints
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Click the image for the full docs brought by the SEC against Harbinger Capital and Phil Falcone — containing the tax loan allegation, the client redemption restriction allegation,...
A Euro Can Hide Another
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Maybe the solution to the Euro crisis cannot be found in politics, economic, finances, but in soccer. The Euro 2012, taking place this month of June in Poland and Ukraine, has offered the opium needed to the peoples of Europe. The final four counts S...
The Household Victory: The meaning of the Greek elections, their significance and the way ahead
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By Pavlos Efthymiou, PhD Candidate in Politics and International Studies, St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge The Greek vote had a class dimension: the haves voted to keep what they have and the have-nots voted for change and a chance t...
The Household Victory: The meaning of the Greek elections, their significance and the way ahead
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By Pavlos Efthymiou, PhD Candidate in Politics and International Studies, St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge The Greek vote had a class dimension: the haves voted to keep what they have and the have-nots voted for change and a chance t...
Yandex Türkiye 2. reklam filmi: “Yaşamın tüm cevapları”
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Tweet TweetRelated posts: Andy Atkins-Krüger asks why “Why Yandex Chose Turkey As Its New Frontier With Google? Rusya’nın en popüler arama motoru Yandex’in Türkiye lansmanı bu akşam… Yandex debuts “social search progra...
Hurray, the banking union is coming!
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The forthcoming European Council is heading with unprecedented speed towards a banking union and historians may remember this as the turning point of the Euro crisis. The question is what kind ofRead more…...
Why We are Challenging ARCEP’s Rules for the Internet Interconnection Market: Ensuring Regulatory Restraint Wherever Regulation is not Justified
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The Internet is a platform for innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. Protecting a policy environment that fosters its continual evolution is critical. Part of this means avoiding any incremental regulation when it is not justified, no...
*That* Target2 presentation
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We wade into choppy waters here. But, we couldn’t help ourselves…Karl Whelan, expert on all matters Target2 and arch nemesis of Hans-Werner Sinn, has encapsulated...
