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The Ghosts of Europe Past

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By BRENDAN SIMMS - Jun. 10 (Opinion) - CAMBRIDGE, England — THE cheerleaders of the European Union like to think of it as an entirely new phenomenon, born of the horrors of two world wars. But in fact it closely resembles a formation that many Europeans thought they had long since left to the

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Europe’s Social Contract, Lying in Pieces

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By DAVID C. UNGER - Jun. 09 (Editorial) - Editorial | Sunday Observer: Europe’s Social Contract, Lying in Pieces

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Greens leader: Abbott climate stance jeopardises the future of children

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Lenore Taylor - Jun. 05 (News Analysis) - Christine Milne plans 'keep the bastards honest' campaign, casting party as Senate curb on Coalition excessesLenore Taylor

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Prisoners of the Euro

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Ross Douthat - Jun. 01 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Columnist: Prisoners of the Euro

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Monsanto set to halt GM push in Europe

Fri, 31 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

rt.com - May. 31 (News) - Monsanto plans to halt lobbying for its genetically modified plant varieties in Europe due to low demand from local farmers, a representative from the US agricultural giant told a German daily. "We are no longer working on lobbying for more cultivation i

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Warning over UK use of cheap coal

Thu, 30 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - May. 30 (News) - Coal on the global market is so cheap that it threatens government attempts to tackle climate change, the chairman of the Environment Agency warns

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Britain’s Self-Defeating Referendum

Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By MICHAEL C. WILLIAMS - May. 29 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Contributor: Britain’s Self-Defeating Referendum

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EU Regulator Suspects BASF Insecticide of Harming Bees

Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - May. 27 (News) - The European Union's food safety regulator has added a BASF insecticide to the list of crop chemicals it suspects of playing a role in declining bee populations. FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Union's food safety regulator has added a BASF insecticid

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Merkel cools EU-China trade war talk

Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - May. 27 (News Report) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she wants to reach an agreement with China over import tariffs and avoid triggering a damaging trade war.

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US, India dance awkwardly around the man who might be India's next leader

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - May. 15 (News Report) - If Narendra Modi wins India's elections next year it would inject discomfort into the deepening relationship between India and the US. ...

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Obama, Cameron Promote Trade Deal Granting Corporations Political Power

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:44:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Zach Carter - May. 13 (News) - President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday pledged to pursue a broad trade agreement between the U.S. and European Union, amid growing domestic unrest with the Obama administration's plans to include new political powers for corporations in the deal.

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Crisis for Europe as trust hits record low

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Ian Traynor - Apr. 25 (News Analysis) - Poll in European Union's six biggest countries finds Euroscepticism is soaring amid bailouts and spending cuts Public confidence in the European Union has fallen to historically low levels in the six biggest EU countries, raising fundamental questions about its democratic legitimacy more than three years into the union's worst ever crisis, new data shows. After financial, currency and debt crises, wrenching budget and spending cuts, rich nations' bailouts of the poor, and surrenders of sovereign powers over policymaking to international technocrats, Euroscepticism is soaring to a degree that is likely to feed populist anti-EU politics and frustrate European leaders' efforts to arrest the collapse in support for their project. Figures from Eurobarometer , the EU's polling organisation, analysed by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), a thinktank, show a vertiginous decline in trust in the EU in countries such as Spain, Germany and Italy that are historically very pro-European. ...

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Fasten seatbelts, air passengers. Climate change ahead.

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Apr. 09 (Special Report) - Transatlantic flights will be bumpier by 2050 because of rising CO2 emissions, a new study finds. Turbulent episodes could double and the average strength of turbulence would also rise 10 to 40 ...

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Editorial: Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By THE EDITORIAL BOARD - Apr. 08 (Editorial) - A leader who transformed Britain by pushing the nation in new directions.

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Putin and Merkel set for a prickly Russian-German summit?

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Apr. 06 (News Analysis) - The Russian and German leaders are set to meet Sunday. But while business between the two nations is good, Germans are concerned over the Kremlin's domestic crackdown. ...

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Eurogroup talks on Cyprus bailout under way

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Mar. 24 (News Report) - A key meeting of eurozone finance ministers to discuss a crucial bailout for Cyprus has begun in Brussels. The talks were delayed by four hours while President Nicos Anastasiades was locked in talks with EU, European Central Bank and IMF leaders.

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Russian Ties Put Cyprus Banking Crisis on East-West Fault Line

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By ANDREW HIGGINS - Mar. 24 (News Report) - Cyprus’s plan to seize money from bank depositors created unease as the country struggled over a bailout deal and sat at the center of conflicting international interests.

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Residents rush to pull money from Cyprus banks as EU takes aim at Russian deposits

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Fox News - Mar. 18 (News) - Cypriots rushed to pull their money out of banks and ATMs before the tiny Mediterranean nation’s government could finalize a plan to seize depositors’ funds to satisfy austerity demands from euro zone leaders, sparking a run that prompted banks to be closed until at least Thursday.

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Cyprus: panic as savings levy is imposed

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Paul Gallagher, Helena Smith - Mar. 17 (News Report) - Cypriots rush to ATMs before savings are docked as part of a bailout deal agreed in Brussels Cypriots reacted with shock that turned to panic on Saturday after a 10% one-off levy on savings was forced on them as part of an extraordinary 10bn euro (£8.7bn) bailout agreed in Brussels. People rushed to banks and queued at cash machines that refused to release cash as resentment quickly set in. The savers, half of whom are thought to be non-resident Russians, will raise almost €6bn thanks to a deal reached by European partners and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It is the first time a bailout has included such a measure and Cyprus is the fifth country after Greece, the Republic of Ireland, Portugal and Spain to turn to the eurozone for financial help during the region's debt crisis. The move in the eurozone's third smallest economy could have repercussions for financially overstretched bigger economies such as Spain and Italy. People with less than 100,000 euros in their accounts will ...

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China Knocks on Iceland's Door

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Einar Benediktsson, Thomas R. Pickering - Mar. 12 (Opinion) - As polar ice recedes, Iceland has become a strategic gateway to energy sources and new trade routes — and Beijing is showing its interest.

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Facing the Threat of the Trans-Pacific Treaty

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Tyee - By Raul Burbano, Kristen Beifus, Manuel Pérez-Rocha - Mar. 08 (Opinion) - Since NAFTA was signed almost 20 years ago, all three North American countries have seen good jobs vanish, worsening income inequality, public services weakened through underfunding or offloaded to the private sector, increased food insecurity (in particular in Mexico), and ecosystems on the point of breaking. NAFTA promised a flourishing North American economy that would benefit all. In Jan. 2014, NAFTA has been in place for 20 years and the promised trickle down benefits have not been realized by communities.

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Bulgarian PM's resignation accepted

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Feb. 21 (News) - Bulgarian MPs vote to accept the resignation of Prime Minister Boiko Borisov and his government.

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“Hands up! This is a robbery!”: Protests Continue in Spain

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Global Voices - By Anna Williams - Feb. 05 (News Report) - People in Madrid have taken the streets in droves to show their fury with President Mariano Rajoy over new corruption allegations. Anna Williams shares her photographs of the protests.

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Israel election setback for Binyamin Netanyahu as centrists gain ground

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Harriet Sherwood - Jan. 23 (News Analysis) - Exit polls prompt speculation that prime minister may seek more moderate coalition Binyamin Netanyahu appears to have suffered a major blow in Israel's general election after television exit polls indicated the narrowest of victories for the rightwing-religious block. There was also a surprisingly strong showing for a new centrist party formed last year, prompting speculation that the prime minister may seek a more moderate coalition to govern Israel for the next few years. Predictions by three television news channels gave 61 parliamentary seats to the rightwing and religious parties, and 59 to the centre, left and Israeli-Arab parties. Netanyahu remains on course to continue as prime minister as his rightwing electoral alliance, Likud-Beiteinu, looks set to be the biggest party with 31 seats out of 120 in the next parliament. But Yesh Atid, a new centrist party led by a former television personality, was predicted to come second with 18 or 19 seats. Yesh Atid concentrated its ...

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Rally in Athens against Greece's Golden Dawn

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Jan. 19 (News) - Some 3,000 people take part in a demonstration in the Greek capital Athens to protest against the rise of the neo-fascist party Golden Dawn.

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