Wolfgang Hager
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Tonight we were at a most enjoyable dinner party where the guests around the table gradually discovered an extraordinary number of mutual acquaintanceships, many of them to do with the networks of the College of Europe, Bruges, and the European Unive...
Hungary and Azerbaijan made Armenia furious
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Hungary handed over Azerbaijani national and confessed killer of Armenian officer Ramil Safarov to Baku when he was pardoned and promoted. Question: Would you say that this case can escalate even further and is it anything what can the international...
The World Passes Through Peak Credit As International Treasury Bonds, International Corporate Bonds And Junk Bonds Top Out ….. A United States Of Europe Is On The Way As Monti Makes Call For A Strong Eurozone Bank
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Financial market report for the week ending Friday August 31, 2012; this is twenty first week of entry into the Second Great Depression. 1) … The age of deflation will be characterized by a see saw destruction of fiat wealth. This week silver, gold...
The World Passes Through Peak Credit As International Treasury Bonds, International Corporate Bonds And Junk Bonds Top Out ….. A United States Of Europe Is On The Way As Monti Makes Call For A Strong Eurozone Bank
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Financial market report for the week ending Friday August 31, 2012; this is twenty first week of entry into the Second Great Depression. 1) … The age of deflation will be characterized by a see saw destruction of fiat wealth. This week silver, gold...
Rights and duties of the deputies
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This post will again deal with both chambers of the federal parliament, it determines rights and duties of deputies of the parliament which will the same in both chambers. This post brings no peculiarities, it determines in principle rules usual in m...
The Federal Reserve on Full Employment: A Democracy Deficit?
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The American economy expanded during the second quarter of 2012 at an annualized rate of 1.7 percent. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate for all of the American states combined was expected to remain above 8 percent. In this context, the chairman of th...
Pirate Bay co-Founder Arrested in Cambodia… cyberculture roundup..
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Pirate Bay Founder Arrested in Cambodia from TorrentFreak by Ernesto Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm was arrested by Cambodian police on Thursday in Phnom Penh, the city that he made his home several years ago. According to local sources he was...
Putin´s and Gazprom´s war on shale gas must be stopped
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The US led shale gas revolution has already killed the Shtokman arctic gas project, but Russia´s Gazprom is - on orders from the Kremlin - continuing to work hard in order to prevent Europe from benefiting from cleand and cheap shale gas:It’s the...
Russia: Activist Jailed on Trumped Up Drug Charges
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Earlier this week, the list of what many are calling Russia's 'political prisoners' grew yet again. On August 28, activist Taisiya Osipova was sentenced to eight years in prison for drug possession: four years more than the prosecution had requested.
A Week in Revolting Europe
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This is a weekly round-up of news, comment and analysis from the Revolting Europe blog, plus our selection of the best stories, photos and videos on the web. Read...
Hungary: Government Criticized for Its Handling of Ramil Safarov's Case
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The extradition of Ramil Safarov to Azerbaijan was based on the belief that he would continue to serve his life sentence there. After Azerbaijan gave amnesty to the convicted murderer, however, Armenia suspended its diplomatic relations with Hungary.
Full Employment in a Republic: Hollande’s France
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Facing an unemployment rate of 10% in his state, with youth particularly hard-hit (23% for those under the age of 25), Francois Hollande of the state of France announced in August 2012 a new initiative for the legislature to pay most of the salaries...
Health insurance would be a lot less expensive if it covered only the kinds of risks that can involve heavy costs
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Insurance is all about risk writes Thomas Sowell. Yet neither insurance companies nor their policy-holders can do anything about one of the biggest risks -- namely, interference by politicians, to turn insurance into something other than a device t...
The effects of digital technology
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It was a beautiful day and I spent most of it in our garden, cleaning up the jungle. I won’t bore you with what every gardener knows about the benefits of gardening. But I also profited from my labours by listening to the radio and hence to a f...
Some thoughts on the situation at London Met
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This is a short commentary on the development of the London Met/UKBA situation written by Workers’ Liberty Student, Vice-President of the Liverpool Guild of Students 2011-12 and NCAFC National Committee member Bob Sutton. It has been produced i...
“La vita per chi come noi è molto difficile”: job rate for immigrants in Italy drops
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My friend Mody, a Sudanese immigrant in Sicily, is looking for a job. In fact, for Mody, looking for a …Continue reading »...
A convicted person is not a plaything of justice, says Croatian General Mladen Markac’s defence
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On 31 August Croatian General Mladen Markac’s defence has filed its full reply to the ICTY Prosecution’s Brief that Generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac, in case the Appeal Chamber found no case for joint criminal enterprise (JCE) and therefo...
From their union to our union
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Spiegel Online tells us that the German chancellor Angela Merkel pushes for a convention to draft a new EU treaty, which would provide 'Brussels' with greater power to monitor budgets. The German proposal has found few supporters in other EU member s...
Journalists under fire
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TIMES are tough for some journalists in Romania working for the international media. They are victims of a fierce campaign initiated by government officials and Cotidianul, a news website. The allegations of ethical and other violations are widely re...
A new German constitution could pave the way for further European integration including Eurobonds
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Many commentators have proposed greater financial integration in Europe, such as introducing Eurobonds and debt mutualisation, as the solution to the Eurozone crisis. Katinka Barysch argues that for Germany to agree to these measures, it would have t...
The Marikana massacre: a turning point?
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This article was written before the shocking decision to charge the 270 striking miners with the murder of their 34 colleagues – using the apartheid-era “common purpose” law. Nevertheless, it seems to be a well-informed account of...
Sewage sludge: a specific waste stream
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Sewage sludge is a specific waste stream which originates from the pollution abatement treatment of urban waste water. Quantities have continuously increased over years across Europe (from an annual production of some 5.5 million tons of dry matter i...
The British case for Mitt Romney
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In 1660, some of the men who had ordered the execution of Charles I were themselves put to death, their corpses mutilated and strung up in public. A Royalist mob gathered at Tyburn, yelling angrily at the cadavers: ‘Enthusiasts! Enthusiasts!’ The...
A shale gas alliance against the EUs "green energy" madness?
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A shale gas alliance between the US and such European countries as the UK and Poland would be a step in the right direction, according to conservative economist Przemek Skwirczynski. Not a bad idea! Greater still, the BBC quotes a...
Tax Service statements are as unclear as the tax laws it seem
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The Ukrainian tax laws, whilst recently revamped and somewhat easier to follow than they once were, are still a labyrinth set with multiple traps for the unwary. That said, there is a very large proportion of Ukrainian society that simply ignore the...
