France top AAA credit rating lost from BBC News | Europe | World Edition France loses a top AAA credit rating as nine eurozone governments are downgraded by Standard & Poor’s prompting markets to fall. Sarkozy braced for political impact of downgrade from FT.com – World, Europe There is no escaping the stigma of France … Read more
Danish Presidency Press Trip from Jon Worth by Jon Sometimes unexpected doors open thanks to blogging, and next week is one of those circumstances. I am spending four days (Monday-Thursday) in Copenhagen on theDanish Presidency Press Trip. Growth and jobs: Denmark’s EU Council presidency by Grahnlaw Prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and the rest of the … Read more
Eurozone: break-up clock is ticking from FT.com – World, Europe Policymakers can do nothing about the odds. The danger is that they are running out of time to ensure that a break-up comes in the form of shrinkage rather than collapse The new fiscal compact from The European Citizen by Eurocentric Yesterday’s neotiations have produced … Read more
MAIN FOCUS: Berlusconi announces gradual resignation | 09/11/2011 from euro|topics After losing his parliamentary majority, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced on Tuesday evening that he was ready to resign. But he wants to give up his office only after the new budget law has been passed. That is too late because the country badly … Read more
WLCentral will be providing news coverage from Spain on the ongoing #spanishrevolution trough this liveblog. Contact us at @wikileaks_world or wikileaksworld@wikileaksworld.org to help us with footage, information and opinion.15MayRevolution.com provides information in English about the 15M movement. An updated agenda of related protests around the world can be found here. Serbia: Arrest of Ratko Mladic … Read more
Europe?s Most Acute Civilizational Crisis Since WWII by Reflection Cafe How Muslims Have Been Taken Hostage by Europe?s Most Acute Civilizational Crisis Since WWII Raphaël Liogier, Harvard International Review- Jan 2011 Raphaël Liogier is the director of the Observatoire du religieux (www.world-religion-watch.org) and a University Professor in Sociology and Theory of Knowledge at the … Read more
The euro pact and Germany: Triumph or a coming bust-up? by Open Europe blog team The Telegraph‘s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard describes the weekend deal at the EU summit as a “total German triumph”. He paraphrases Chancellor Angela Merkel saying that “whoever wants credit must fulfil our conditions”. 2011-03-18 Bulgarian Organized Crime Uncensored from WL Central by … Read more
VIDEO: Cyber attack targeted Paris G20 from BBC News | Europe | World Edition The French finance ministry has confirmed it came under a cyber attack in December that targeted files on the G20 summit held in Paris in February. It appears that somebody was trying to sneak a look at documents ahead of the … Read more
The EU won the Olympics, the World Cup…and now an Oscar by Open Europe blog team The EU won the 2006 and 2010 World Cups in football (at least according to Romani Prodi and Jean-Claude Trichet, so it has to be true). Interview with Olivier Roy on ‘Islam in Europe’ by Reflection Cafe New Perspectives … Read more
Riot police guarded a bank in Athens yesterday during a nationwide protest against the government?s latest austerity measures. (Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images) EU summit: The early betting line from Brussels Blog by Peter Spiegel The EU?s final two-day heads of government summit of 2010 starts Thursday and early betting is that it will be much quieter … Read more
Belgium takes over the EU Council Presidency for six months today, Thursday. But the country is deeply divided politically and has only a provisional government led by former Premier Yves Leterne, who was voted out of office in June. The press, however, is confident of the strength of the EU and believes the current Belgian regionalism is a model for Europe.
http://www.diskursdisko.de/2010/04/juan-leguizamon-nautische-geschichten/ http://www.behance.net/jflegui found in Juan F. Leguizamon ******************* Improving EU economic governance: Impressive Herman Van Rompuy by Grahnlaw Winston Churchill is said to have quipped that the Labour leader Clement Attlee was a man who had much to be modest about. At (s)election time British tabloids, which pray at the shrine of John Bull, were … Read more
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Some environmental groups are planning disruptive protests for the upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen, taking cues from the anti-globalization movement:
“We feel that right now in Copenhagen there is a real opportunity for things to come together a little bit like they did 10 years ago at the World Trade Organization protest in Seattle,” Müller told SPIEGEL ONLINE….