Wissenschaft
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We found ourselves at a dinner table this evening with two very distinguished academics, historian Jonathan Steinberg and musicologist and dance historian Marion Kant, with specializations in, among other subjects, matters Germanic. Steinberg last ye...
Gibraltar simply not an issue for Spaniards, leading think tank poll confirms
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An interesting opinion poll in Spain is making headlines despite the fact it confirms what has been said for a long time, namely: Gibraltar is simply not an issue for Spaniards.Carried out by the highly regarded Spanish think tank Real Instituto Elca...
Moldova vs. Moldova: Who is the Winner?
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On June 28, 1940, Moldova was overrun by the Soviet troops, after it had been given up by Romania. The Soviet Union quickly added it to its territory. Was it liberation or occupation? Diana Lungu reviews the opinions of Moldovan netizens.
Cold British summer: Shoppers stocking up on warming and comfort foods
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In Britain the cold and rainy summer has led to some unusual behavior: Yet another predictably wet and even cold summer time in the United Kingdom has led to a flurry of homeowners showing an unseasonal interest in home improvementsMany in the i...
EU Crisis: A Disastrous Liaison, Chancellor Merkel Breaks A Taboo
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It was a week that changed everything. Taboos broken and mindsets changed. It was the end of Art of Superstate part 3 and the beginning of part 4. A disastrous liaison. Oh what a Brussels night! Commander Merkel suffered a setback, a blackmail, a los...
Seasonality and jobs, one more time
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Our thinking on the US recovery has been that things were never quite as bad as we feared in the worst of times (the last two Augusts), and never quite as good as we’d hoped...
What Are the Best Russian News Sources?
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Russia is in the news more and more these days as, under Vladimir Putin's (and now Dmitry Medvedev's) leadership, Russia is slowly recovering from the fall of the Soviet Union, and the basket case days of Yeltsin's leadership in the 1990s.Although Ru...
Der Himmel über Europa
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Ich hab in den letzten Tagen häufiger über Europa reden dürfen, reden müssen. Wenn man das tut, merkt man, dass das mitnichten einfach ist, dass man manchmal viel lieber nichts sagen würde, weil man, obwohl man das Richtige sagen möchte, doch n...
Wikileaks a CIA operation
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I haven’t followed what the Russian media has been saying about Julian Assange, but since his cable dump mostly embarrassed the USA, I would guess he’s been greeted as a hero. He was given a spot on Russia Today. It turns out that he was...
Romania parliament votes to impeach president
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Romania's parliament has voted to impeach President Traian Basescu following a bitter dispute with Prime Minister Victor Ponta – as the EU expresses concern about political developments in the country...
For China, Trade is not Simply About FDI
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http://www.hiebs.hku.hk/events_updates/pdf/tongyueting.pdf An empirical study undertaken at the University of Hong Kong examining the phenomenon of trade and foreign direct investment in mainland China has demonstrated a key policy point of China's F...
Euro-Rettungspolitik
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Über 170 namhafte Wirtschaftsprofessoren protestieren öffentlich gegen die Euro-Rettungspolitik. Der Finanzminister nimmt das immerhin so ernst, dass er darauf nicht nur reagiert, sondern richtiggehend eindrischt auf seine Kritiker. Nun ist Kritik...
Romanian Parliament finalized the impeachment procedure of President Basescu
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Romania’s Parliament finalized impeachment proceedings Friday to suspend President Traian Basescu. In a motion filed in parliament, the ruling coalition accused the president of violating the country’s constitution and overstepping...
Hillary Clinton Bested by a Syrian General
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“I don’t think Russia and China believe they are paying any price at all — nothing at all — for standing up on behalf of the Assad regime,” U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at the so-called “Friends of Syria” meeting, which...
Will Slovenia ask for some financial assistance this autumn?
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By Zeljko Sevic, Professor of Accounting, Finance and Public Policy, Glasgow Caledonian University The Slovenian transitional path has been specific in a sense that the transformation has been very much internal (in-house), with very little if any fo...
Will Slovenia ask for some financial assistance this autumn ?
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By Zeljko Sevic, Professor of Accounting, Finance and Public Policy, Glasgow Caledonian University The Slovenian transitional path has been specific in a sense that the transformation has been very much internal (in-house), with very little if any fo...
Finnish finance minister: "Finland will not hang itself to the euro"
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Finland, one of the few EU countries still enjoying triple-A credit rating, will not accept an integration model in which it would have to pay other countries´ debts. That is the tough message of Finnish finance minister Jutta Urpilainen: Finla...
Steal This Book. (Club the Busboy to Death with it.)
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On one hand, you have MEPs bloviating about how the piracy of intellectual is some sort of human right. On the other hand, after tch-tch-ing those clueless Americans (even using sock-puppets) about Arizona’s border enforcement code being some sort...
US energy data point du jour
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In the last week of June, the Dept. of Energy released data for April showing that natural gas generated the same amount of power as coal-fired plants for the first time in recent history....
A Common Market to De-Balkanize the Balkans?
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The fatal flaw of "Balkan Benelux" is the brutal fact that wider Europe doesn’t need these four countries.
Still missing: faster NGDP growth, or expectations thereof
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We already discussed at length the evolving and (yet again) disappointing relationship between jobs and profits growth, along with the not-so-anomalous-in-context swings in productivity...
EU chief polishes Palestinians' chains
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This weekend’s visit by José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, to the West Bank is a calculated insult to ordinary Palestinians and to the taxpayers he purports to represent. On Sunday morning, Barroso is scheduled to inspect the...
Friday fantasies
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Have you checked the IPKat's Forthcoming Events list recently? There are plenty of interesting, educative and even enjoyable events for you to attend -- and some even carry special discounts on the registration fee for IPKat readers [Merpel wants to...
