The Closer
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ROUND-UP FT’s markets round-up: “Stocks, commodities and growth-focused currencies retreated after a batch of disappointing economic data reminds investors just why...
Tory Brian Coleman held by police on suspicion of assault
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Notorious Tory councillor Brian Coleman is currently being held at a central London police station tonight after being arrested on suspicion of assault, it has been reported. The former chair of London Fire Authority and one of the highest paid counc...
Germany and Europe: reluctant champions | editorial
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Only a power as self-confident culturally and politically as it is economically can provide that sort of leadershipOur week-long portrait of Germany as the accidental empire has provided a fascinating deconstruction of the country increasingly thrust...
The Kocherlakota Rule
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It’s Fed speech week, but rather than spending much time supporting or criticising last week’s decision by the FOMC, Minneapolis Fed president Narayana Kocherlakota...
The Lamb
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When I was eighteen I had a girlfriend who was studying at University College, London. She lived in a hall of residence in deepest Bloomsbury and we spent a lot of time walking around the area, frequently ending our evenings in a pub. The Lamb in Con...
There’s not a hope the next election in the UK will be about policy – it’s deluded to even argue that it could be
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Labour grandee Paul Richards has penned a tremendously misjudged piece on LabourList, so much so I think it deserves to analysed a bit. This is especially vital because the main premise – that Labour can win an election in the UK based on polic...
Dialog techniczny – nowe wyzwania i mozliwosci
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Mimo, ze ostatnia nowelizacja Prawa zamówien publicznych zacznie obowiazywac dopiero po 3 miesiacach od opublikowania wlasciwego Dziennika Ustaw, a na razie zajmuje sie nia Senat, warto juz teraz przyjrzec sie nowym regulacjom. Na poczatek tzw...
Quantitative easing isn't magic | James K Galbraith
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It is unrealistic to expect central banks like the Fed and the ECB to solve our deep economic problemsWhat should we make of the latest moves to kickstart the US economy, and to save the euro? As the late, great Harvard chaplain Peter Gomes said to m...
"Stop the slide! A modest proposal" by Andrew Watt
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The Guardian’s Larry Elliot has a useful round-up of a slew of new data from around the world which all point in the same direction. Down. It underlines that the recent decisions in Europe, and especially the ECB’s nascent bond-buying pro...
Human Trafficking in Europe
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Human trafficking refers to illegally trading human beings for various purposes – usually sexual exploitation, slavery or cheap labor. While this might sound like something from the history books, and while you would hope that something so terrible...
Mervyn King denies knifing Bob Diamond over Barclay’s LIBOR fix
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Confirming that “several” UK banks were involved in fixing the LIBOR inter-bank lending rate on Channel 4 News earlier, Bank of England governor Mervyn King was at his emollient best when asked about his role in the sacking of Barclays...
Dictated Media Freedom? No Open Press Conference on the 15th EU-China Summit
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Tweet“I DON’T MAKE JOKES. I JUST WATCH THE PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND REPORT THE FACTS.” – Will Rogers “Freedom of Media is for us … I mean, it is a sacred principle. It is a problem of values. Let’s have no doubts about it.
IEA plots path to halving fuel used for road transport in under 40 years
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See on Scoop.it – The Great Transition Two reports released on Wednesday by the International Energy Agency (IEA) show how the right policies and technologies could improve the fuel efficiency of road vehicles by 50% by the middle of the centur...
Mocking Islam: Why do so?
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The anti-Islam video being allegedly shot in the US and called “The Innocence of Muslims” stirred up a turmoil in the Muslim world a week ago. Now the French weekly Charlie Hebdo came to offer one more blast by publishing a series of cart...
SW MEP launches petition calling on UK government to 'stop the Strasbourg circus'
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South West Conservative MEP Ashley Fox has launched an e-petition calling on the UK government to back MEPs and help ditch the European Parliament’s second seat in Strasbourg. The current Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government is commi...
Tusk, Balboa, Cameron, Trierweiler: dreams of a Jackie Kennedy Europe
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The role of the first lady, a typical American phenomenon, has no direct counterpart in Europe. That's not just because of the difference in political systems (do we go with the president’s wife - or the prime minister’s?), but also due to cultur...
The Governor, live [updated]
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A quick plug for Channel 4 News’ live – live! – interview with Mervyn King, just airing at pixel time. Click pic (via Faisal Islam) for feed. Guesses for how...
Sporadic CETA Scaremongering
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The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) released a report claiming that the Canada-EU Trade Agreement (CETA) negotiations deal could result in “as many as 70,000 job losses in Ontario”, inciting fear in the Canadian public. The report...
The rather political Lviv Book Forum
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PUBLISHERS from across Ukraine flocked to Lviv for its annual book fair Forum Vydavtsiv. Founded in 1994, it is Ukraine’s largest event of this kind, combining book market, literary festival, and over 800 events featuring Ukrainian and foreign auth...
The rather political Lviv Book Forum
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PUBLISHERS from across Ukraine flocked to Lviv for its annual book fair Forum Vydavtsiv. Founded in 1994, it is Ukraine’s largest event of this kind, combining book market, literary festival, and over 800 events featuring Ukrainian and foreign auth...
ECB's own budgetary discipline not inspiring confidence
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With budgetary discipline the only game in town in the eurozone, it must have been a bit of an awkward moment at the ECB when they realised that the bank's new Frankfurt headquarters (pictured), currently under construction and due to be completed in...
Nationalist parties set to lose EU funding
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Tweet In February 2012 I reported an announcement from the European Parliament recently had political parties like the UK’s BNP and France’s Front National party, rubbing their hands in glee. Their positions would have potentially been s...
Personal Belief Trumps Science: On Global Warming
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On September 16, 2012, “Arctic ice covered just 1.32 million square miles—the lowest extent ever recorded. ‘The loss of summer sea ice has led to unusual warming of the Arctic atmosphere, that in turn impacts weather patterns in the Northern He...
Hollande’s pursuit for tax capital set to raise €20 billion
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François Hollande, rested from his summer holiday, this week outlined his plan to France’s Court of Audit of how the tax system will operate under a socialist government. His intention is to raise €20 billion in new taxes - which include a 75% t...
Nationalist’s parties set lose EU funding
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In February 2012 I reported an announcement from the European Parliament recently had political parties like the UK’s BNP and France’s Front National party, rubbing their hands in glee. Their positions would have potentially been strengthen...
UEFA helps tackle Motor Neurone Disease
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UEFA President Michel Platini presented the UEFA Monaco Charity Award to the Stefano Borgonovo Foundation in support of the research into Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). The 1m euros cheque was handed over to Stefano Borgonovo’s wife and t...
Your invitation to the 2012 PES Congress
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The 2012 PES Congress, which had been scheduled to be held in Bucharest, has been transferred to Brussels. As a result, the PES Activists forum, which was due to take place before the congress, has been postponed until the coming months. However, Bru...
Russian Corporate Debt Issuance Steals a March on European Counterparts
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Evidence that Russian companies can sell riskier debt than their Western European counterparts has never been more underlined than in recent debt sales.
EU female quota opposition grows
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Another day, another country opposing a nascent European Commission plan to impose a 40 per cent quota on women serving on corporate boards. Last week, a UK-led letter to the proposal’s author, EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding, and her boss,...
