The Closer
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ROUND-UP FT markets round-up: “The S&P 500 on Wall Street returned from the Labor day holiday to register a decline of 0.1 per cent, weighing on European markets, where...
At The E-Pine Discussion, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Stresses The Importance Of Regional Energy And Transport Projects And Calls For Support To Eastern Partnership Countries
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On August 3 at the Nordic-Baltic-U.S. academic meeting in the framework of the Enhanced Partnership in Northern Europe (e-PINE) in Vilnius, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis stressed the imp...
When lending standards don’t interfere, car sales edition
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The August US light vehicle sales numbers from Autodata were released earlier this afternoon, beating expectations:And click below to expand the breakdown by cars and trucks...
The politics of the euro crisis: plenty of pain in Spain | Editorial
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The country is paying the price for not using the long boom to build sustainable economies in its poorer regionsWhether the European single currency survives its existential crisis (and the betting on that must be yes, more or less), the larger proje...
Schäuble’s mixing feelings about Greece
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Wolfgang Schäuble is one of the most recognized figures of the European Union, a tough player in the field of Eurozone finance and the right hand of Chacellor Merkel in every meeting with economic scent. It is widely considered as stubborn, a kind o...
Kat Update: One Direction changes direction
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In what will be relief to many British teenage girls, the British-Irish boy band One Direction has settled its dispute with a US punk band of the same name. As readers will recall, the dispute arose from applications for various stylised versions of...
The German dream world of windmills on water has turned into an enormous fiasco
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Things are not looking good for German chancellor Angela Merkel and her government. The economy is slowing down, the euro crisis shows no signs of easing, and the chancellor´s hastily undertaken energy transition policy is turning into a huge failur...
(Français) Quand Quatremer dénonçait la complaisance des journalistes « bruxellois » : Maastricht est-il passé grâce à l’europhilie médiatique ?
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Only a few countries recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Is it going to change?
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Read few comments. James Ker-Lindsay, Senior Research Fellow on the Politics of South East Europe, The London School of Economics and Political Science Although there is always the possibility that more countries will recognise South Ossetia and Abkh...
Russia: Patriarch's Press Secretary Wants LiveJournal to Ban Photoshops of Priests
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In an interview [ru] with the Orthodox website Pravmir.Ru, Patriarch Kirill's press secretary, Aleksandr Volkov, complained that LiveJournal users are too often permitted to engage in “school bathroom” humor that derides the clergy.
Monti, Hollande stress need for economic growth
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See on Scoop.it – The Great Transition Italian premier Mario Monti and French leader Francois Hollande on Tuesday said Europe must urgently restore economic growth and create jobs as part of a wider plan to safeguard the 17-country euro currenc...
Spain’s funding costs post a Draghi-ing
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So, we are days from finding out what the ECB is planning to do… or at least, days away from knowing more than we do now.But immediate largesse in the bond market isn’t...
NS Does a Jimmy Carr (3)
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As explained yesterday, I managed to get all of Dutch politics in a frenzy last Saturday, by pointing out that the Dutch state railway company NS uses an Irish subsidiary to avoid Dutch taxes. However, on August 8th already, Farshad Bashir, a Member...
David Cameron has rewarded loyalty
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David Cameron has rewarded loyalty. This is the team he wants to fight the next election. I used to hate reshuffles. For 15 years I was a newspaper political editor, and the Sunday before the big day was the worst time to try to predict what was goin...
Cross women
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A CHAINSAW-WIELDING blonde topless woman cutting down a cross in a city centre sounds like a scene from a peculiar pornographic film. But that is just what happened on August 17 in the Ukrainian capital Kiev (Kyiv in its vernacular transliteration).
Cross women
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A CHAINSAW-WIELDING blonde topless woman cutting down a cross in a city centre sounds like a scene from a peculiar pornographic film. But that is just what happened on August 17 in the Ukrainian capital Kiev (Kyiv in its vernacular transliteration).
Monti and Hollande Call for Greater Growth
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We've heard the words before, but is there more substance this time? Perhaps. Mario Monti and François Hollande met in Italy and called for greater growth. More to the point, however, they agreed that a high-speed rail line would be built between Ly...
Russia: Online Platform for Auditing Court Decisions
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The creation of RosPravosudiya has given Russians a most comprehensive database of information about lawyers, attorneys, judges and judicial decisions.
Barroso: Put foreign policy at heart of EU crisis response
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Europe should put foreign policy at the heart of its response to the eurozone, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso says...
Iraq in chaos - the legacy of western intervention
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Western economic aid for Iraq should be firmly tied to good governance and sanctions should be deployed if the human rights abuses, and corruption, continue - says Struan Stevenson MEP...
Double change at Defra worries farmers
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The double change at Defra of secretary of state and farm minister has worried farmers and their friends, although new secretary of state Owen Patterson is said to be on message on badger culls: Defra Caroline Spelman was never fully convincing as a...
Jim Reid’s journey into the unknown
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One of the small mercies of the financial crisis is that Ben Bernanke’s years of studying of the Great Depression have not gone entirely to waste.But, as Deutsche Bank’s Jim Reid,...
