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German growth too weak to lift eurozone from recession

By   /  May 15, 2013  /  Economy, Europe, News  /  No Comments

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By Valentina Pop | EUobserver The eurozone economy continues to shrink as Germany’s economy grew by a meagre 0.1 percent in the past three months, while France slid back into recession, according to data from the EU statistics office Eurostat published on Wednesday (15 May). Shrinking by 0.2 percent in the first three months of [...]

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Paedophile gang convicted at UK criminal court

By   /  May 14, 2013  /  Europe, In Other News, News  /  No Comments

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British police and council leaders have apologized for their failings as a sadistic paedophile gang has been convicted at the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales (the Old Bailey) for extreme abuse of schoolgirls.

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Britain: Secrets of 27 Million Mobile Phones Offered to Police, Corporations

By   /  May 14, 2013  /  Europe, In Other News, News  /  No Comments

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Sunday Times via BLN Thedata of 27m mobile phone users has been offered for sale to the Metropolitan police, private companies and other bodies, enabling them to track users’ movements. Ipsos Mori, one of Britain’s biggest research firms, has been caught offering text and call records for sale. The company has claimed in meetings that [...]

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Discrimination and segregation by Extremists on UK campus

By   /  May 13, 2013  /  Europe, In Other News, News  /  No Comments

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ANI Preaching by extremists and discrimination through segregation at student events has become a widespread trend at many UK universities, a student equality group has claimed. Radical preachers spoke at nearly 200 events at universities including Cardiff and University College London (UCL) over the last year. Research found that segregated seating for men and women [...]

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Soros: Italy Market Calm Will Be Short-Lived

By   /  May 12, 2013  /  Economy, Europe, News  /  No Comments

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CNBC The market recovery which has brought Italy’s borrowing costs down over recent months is unlikely to be sustained for long, while the fundamental problems facing the euro zone remain, investor George Soros said in comments published on Sunday. Helped by European Central Bank guarantees and buoyed by the flood of cash released by Japan’s [...]

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‘The euro will eventually destroy the European Union’ – George Soros

By   /  May 10, 2013  /  Economy, Europe, News  /  No Comments

George Soros Speaks About The Euro

The controversial financial speculator George Soros believes that the existence of the common European currency and the unwillingness of Germany to guarantee the debts of the poorer European countries will eventually lead to the dissolution of the European Union.

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Deadly virus newly found in humans strikes in France

By   /  May 9, 2013  /  Europe, Health, News  /  No Comments

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Zee News Novel coronavirus (NCoV), a newly discovered and potentially deadly virus, related to one that causes the common cold, has struck another victim, this time in France, CNN reported Thursday. A man hospitalised in April has been infected with the novel coronavirus, the French health ministry said. The NCoV virus was recently found for [...]

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Survey: Croatia and Slovenia most corrupt in EU

By   /  May 8, 2013  /  Europe, News, Politics  /  No Comments

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By Andrew Rettman | EUobserver Croatia, about to enter the EU, is one of the most corrupt countries in Europe according to a new survey. But Slovenia – an EU and eurozone member – is even worse. The findings come in an annual report on corporate graft published on Tuesday (7 May) by the US-based financial services [...]

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Proposed Law Gives European Commission New Powers to Classify and Regulate all Plant Life Europe

By   /  May 6, 2013  /  Europe, News, Politics  /  No Comments

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Real Seeds On Monday May 6th a draconian new law was put before the European Commission, which creates new powers to classify and regulate all plant life anywhere in Europe. The “Plant Reproductive Material Law” regulates all plants. It contains immediate restrictions on vegetables and woodland trees, while creating powers to restrict all other plants [...]

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The French Government’s Exquisite Bullying

By   /  May 2, 2013  /  Europe, News, Politics  /  No Comments

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By Wolf Richter | Testosterone Pit The French government is saddled with enough problems; in theory, it no longer needs to create new ones. But now it wrote another excellent chapter in its tome on how to interfere with private-sector businesses, hamper entrepreneurs, and encourage them to start up their operations elsewhere instead of creating [...]

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Europe Has Become A Totalitarian State

By   /  May 2, 2013  /  Europe, Politics  /  No Comments

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By Mark J. Grant | Zero Hedge “What manner of men had lived in those days…who had so eagerly surrendered their sovereignty for a lie and a delusion?” - Taylor Caldwell Cyprus is absolutely the template for Europe now. It is just that the template is far worse than what is narrowly imagined. It is not [...]

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Slovenia sticks to bond sale despite ‘junk’ status

By   /  May 2, 2013  /  Economy, Europe, News  /  No Comments

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By Valentina Pop | EUobserver Slovenia is struggling to avoid a eurozone bailout after Moody’s ratings agency downgraded its sovereign to “junk” status. The Slovenian finance ministry on Wednesday (1 May) said it will resume a bond sale that was halted just hours before Moody’s downgraded the country to junk. “After Moody’s downgrade of Slovenia, [...]

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