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2009-06-18 After calls from both the EP and from France and Germany for Barroso to give details on his "ambitious agenda" for a second term, Barroso has finally attempted to outline his vision for the …
2009-06-10 … Around Europe, Libertas were defeated left, right and centre - they've only managed 1 of their desired 100 seats, and that was de Villiers in France, who was an outgoing MEP, and likely to have been re-elected simply on the local support he had there, rather than on the strength of the Libertas …
2009-06-08 … left-leaning section of the middle class. I certainly know people who would have voted PES but voted Green instead. The effect was most dramatic in France, where the Greens equaled the Socialists, though here the far-left, rather than the far-right, benefited as well. This trend is reversible, though. …
2009-06-07 … I'll try to comment on results. Sorry for the (many) member states that I've left out. Contents: - France - Slovenia - Hungry - Germany - Austria France: Polls opened for the Outre-mer or overseas territories yesterday, and polls open for metropolitian France today. Still not much more to add since …
2009-06-06 … or continuing questions over Berlusconi's private life is going to dent his People of Freedom party's chances. With the left in disarray (as in France), and Berlusconi's ratings amazingly high for a leader in power during the economic crisis, the EPP can expect a big win here. Cyprus: Poor turnout …
2009-04-07 … threatening to boycott the G20 summit, a threat so ridiculous in its hollowness that it was clearly stage-managed for the media spin machine, France is presented as being at the forefront of the push for tougher regulation and in the battle against 'tax havens'. As we have commented before, there …
2009-03-13 … the summit to demonstrate European unity against protectionism... Western Europe The fascist drift in Europe has reached private banking with France and Germany, backed of course by the US, seeking to blame the financial crisis on the small low tax or no-tax states whose banking system still …
2009-02-21 … young workers, have led to protests in countries as varied as Latvia, Chile, Greece, Bulgaria and Iceland and contributed to strikes in Britain and France. Last month, the government of Iceland, whose economy is expected to contract 10 percent this year, collapsed and the prime minister moved up …
2009-02-13 … from the traditional concern with the long-term welfare of employees to a more U.S. style employment insecurity, a change that's taking place in France and in many other previously socially progressive countries. Japan on the brink of the abyss? The economic outlook in Japan is very grim, as brief …
2009-02-05 … closed schools in large swathes of the country and, according to the police, brought 1.1 million people to the streets in cities and towns across France. Unions Confederation Generale du Travail and FO put the number closer to 2.5 million. While France has a history of street protests, the global …
2009-01-19 … comments that NATO countries that did not join in the Afghan and Iraq wars were hiding behind the 'security' provided by Britain, the US and France. It is the same tactic, create a lie and have those that refuse to believe it cast by your media as cowards, irresponsible, not showing solidarity …
2008-12-23 … of how to help people survive, of changing the system, no, what is needed is a "big symbolic measure", damn these people are heartless and stupid! France will officially be in recession in 2009; French car-makers are already cutting jobs and idling plants even after receiving €779 million of …
2008-12-09 … of €20 billion for the banks with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi promising that, "No bank will go bankrupt". A week later Italy joined Germany, France, Spain, Holland and Austria in the €1,500 billion "greatest bank bailout in history" which included €40 billion in equity for banks on a "case by …
2008-12-02 … their labour for wages, whether in the city or on the land. Douglas Reed said this about William Cobbett, "He fought for [freedom] in England, in France during the French Revolution, in America just after the American Revolution, and again in England […] he was wooed by a Tory government and …
2008-11-25 … has been promoted to the world. In the recent Doha round of trade talks many countries baulked at what was being asked of them. These included France where governments can fall at the suggestion that a free market in agricultural products be opened to the world and Brasil. Yet without more …
2008-10-28 … of being Bush's obedient 'puppy' in Europe following the abdication of that role by Tony Blair in 2006. That the 'crisis' should occur while France holds the rotating European Presidency might seem 'opportune'. Had it occurred before 30th June 2008, it would be Slovenia that held the EU …
2009-01-18 … is likely to resume with worse intensity. Kenya today is in similar circumstances as Russia in 1917, China after World War 1, Cuba in 1959 or France in 1790. The people are sick of the cruel ways of the leaders. The people yearn for somebody or something to liberate them from a lifetime of …
2008-10-13 … June 2007, it has declined 43 percent. Friday marked the British index’s fifth consecutive losing day, during which it lost 20 percent of its value. France’s CAC-40 index fell 6.8 percent and Germany’s DAX 30 plunged 7 percent. Trading in Italy, Russia and Austria was halted. The last of Iceland’s major …
2009-06-16 … a nice end, as Merton has such a beautiful hall along with the fact that we indulged in Saint-Emilion Grand Cru wine, which I had brought back from France and gave as a gift for his invitation. It was quite a nice traditional three course dinner, which is to be expected at Merton which does formal hall …
2009-05-19 … around the Jardin des Tuileries this afternoon and felt this wonderful sense of desire to miss my train back to London this evening and stay in France. Alas, my time here is coming to an end I have a lot of work to do back in Oxford…
2009-06-18 … impressive rates of economic growth. China and India have pulled hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. By mobilizing state resources, France has built a system of high-speed railways, while Canada provides free health care. Among the new democracies, Slovenia and Slovakia have been able …
2009-05-30 … installation at the Dhafra Air Base near the city, and a downtown military barracks for several hundred French soldiers. Russia will no doubt use France's military new permanent presence in the Persian Gulf to justify its own geopolitical maneuvers. While the Russian Navy sails unopposed into the …
2009-05-29 … launch preemptive strikes against NATO countries. Specifically, a surprise Soviet missile assault against the USA, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France could be followed by armoured thrusts by land into “former” Soviet Bloc states like Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, “former” Soviet …
2009-06-07 … First UK seats in the North East of England: looks like Lab 1, Con 1, LD 1. No change in make-up of representation, but Labour are down 9%. 9:07 France: UMP (EPP) 28 (up 11); Socialists 15 (down 13); Greens 14 (up 8); Democratic Movement 6 (down 3); Leftist parties 6 (up 3). Good for Sarko, the …
2009-02-14 … a 30-year, all-consuming passion for Mr. Silverman and his wife, Lila. “I’ve found material all over the world: Japan, Czechoslovakia, Germany, France, the United States,” he said. Now Mr. Silverman, 84, and his wife have decided to give their entire Fluxus collection to the Museum of Modern Art, …
2008-11-21 … basic terms mean. World War I did that to a whole generation of young British writers – most of them went off to war, to the trenches in Northern France, and a good number of them didn’t come back. And they produced a lot of stunning writing about getting things straight, like Wilfred Owen with his …
2009-06-06 … was setup by a restoration of the old imperial power instead of a bourgeois revolution like in Great Britain, United States of America and France in the 17th and 18th century. More specifically the sense of vulnerability remained the intrinsic motivation of any political agenda. Even worse, …
2008-12-30 … number of serious diplomatic approaches, for more or less peaceful negotiations of this claim, conducted by Great Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark, France, Russia and America since 1790 amounted to approximately two dozen. In this context, it is almost possible to understand the United States’ …
2008-02-28 … of U.S. aid money has flowed to Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years, but notes that assistance to Africa has risen substantially. South Africa-France: AFP profiles French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s trip to South Africa, where talks on energy cooperation will front the bill. AMERICAS: Colombia …
2008-02-18 … of government during the isolation came to an end and a Western puppet government replaced it – the usual story all over the world.Britain, Russia, France and the Netherlands also signed ‘unequal treaties’ with Japan which gave these countries far more rights than the Japanese (see ‘free trade’ to this …
2007-05-08 Well, if you read my post yesterday, you know that I am ecstatic about the election of "pro-American conservative" Nicholas Sarkozy as President of France - and most conservatives share my joy. But not much has been said about "Sarko" other than that he is a "pro-American conservative". So, who exactly …
2007-03-14 … This blog will continue to exist, especially considering the pivotal international elections which will be taking place in the next few months. France will head to the polls on April 22 to begin the process of electing a successor to Jacques Chirac, and the leading candidate at the moment is - get …
2009-06-08 … light and color. His emphasis is upon our integrated experiences of work, family and culture as it has evolved over time. Early on, we discover that France is no longer a large enough canvas to contain the ambitions of its middle class. Helene, the matriarch, is celebrating her 75th birthday with her …
2008-02-15 … “several” too modest, shouldn’t you just say ” has offices and factories […] offices and factories around the world, including Switzerland, Holland, France, Germany, the UK, Hungary, Spain, Australia and China. Sandro Ferronato, owner of the company, explains why KGS was keen to participate in thesQuba …
2008-02-10 … The leader and founder of the Front National party was given a three-month suspended jail sentence for saying in 2005 that the German occupation of France during World War II as “not especially inhumane.” Le Pen, 79, scored a surprise second-place finish in the 2002 French presidential election, after …
2008-10-09 … A deep recession, comparable with the 1930s seems likely to affect UK for several years. The crisis has also affected Ireland, Iceland, Germany, France, Greece, Russia, China, virtually every developed economy. When Ireland and Germany and Greece offered blanket guarantees to savers and account …
2007-11-10 … the opportunity for parties to build up the kind of vibrant grass roots membership enjoyed in pother European countries. He points out that : In France there is roughly one elected official for every 100 voters and in Germany one for every 250. In these countries local mayors and councillors are …
2007-10-24 … .53 and $25m- .05, .06 and .11. By 2004 the richest 1% of Americans were earning $1.3 trillion a year, greater than the total national incomes of France, Italy or Canada. In 1985 there were only 13 billionaires- by 2006 there were 400. The expansion in the States is being mirrored in Europe. The …
2007-01-24 … that of the successful Scandinavian economies(Demark 53%, Sweden, 63%) and even further below those of major euro-zone countries (Germany, 68%, France, 75%). Us borrowing (64%) is also well above Britain’s and japan (156%) is off the scale. In some of these countries there have been economic …
2006-12-05 France, Politics and the 2007 Presidential Elections ‘There is unrest on sprawling housing estates, economic stagnation, and unemployment that this spring …
2006-11-23 … 13,000 believed to have died as a result. Ayatollah Khomeini-having been exiled in 1964- opposed secularization from the vantage of Turkey, Iraq and France. Iran was the largest military power in the region but internally the shah’s position was weakening. In 1979, after recurring street opposition, the …
2006-10-25 … when they backed the wrong side and lost out at the peace settlement. The British Connection According to the Sykes-Picot Agreement 1916 Britain and France divided up the Middle East into zones of influence with UK having Jordan, Iraq and Haifa and France Syria, S.E. Turkey and Lebanon. The League of …
2009-07-02 … them about repeating those things again in the future. Sadly, historical ignorance is reflected at the highest levels. On Saturday, the leaders of France, Canada, the UK and the U.S. descended on Normandy to commemorate the 65th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Hitler’s Europe. Gordon …
2009-07-08 … we do not even need to listen, much less take seriously. What no-one seem to be watching though is the European dimension. On 6 July, the UK and France released a declaration on defence and security following the UK-French Summit in Evian – which most of us did not even realise was happening. It …
2005-09-25 … at this time. According to him, anti-americanism is rampant, and words like liberal, globalisation and even Europe is used only to scare people. France, according to him, is in the danger of retreating from some of its own very best contributions to the development of the West. I hope he’s …
2006-04-21 … transplant ever performed in China had to be undertaken. It was only the second face transplant in the world, the first having been performed in France last year. The recipient of the new face, or more precisely a new cheek, upper lip and nose - all from the one donor, was Li Guoxing, a 30 year-old …
2008-10-27 … Water Treatment Plant Here are some excerpts from the Proponent's Argument in favor of Prop R […] Just as France presented the Statue of Liberty as its gift to the nation, the citizens of San Francisco may now bestow their own special gift to the country by …
2008-12-14 … have been left in danger because EU leaders bowed to business-lobby pressure,” said Elise Ford, head of the Brussels office of the Oxfam charity. French President Nicolas Sarkozy hailed the agreement as historic. It would require the EU to cut emissions by at least 20% and raise use of renewable …
2009-07-07 … […] European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet has praised the USA's commitment to the strong dollar as several world powers including France and Russia call for a fresh debate on the global currency system ahead of this week's G8 summit of leaders in Italy […] Meanwhile, Russian …
2009-06-24 … is an extreme measure – like locking the door, and throwing the keys away […] I am a little surprised not to hear howls of protests from France and other European countries […] Germany has not consulted its European partners in a systematic way. This was an example of policy unilateralism …
2009-06-21 … in the country […] He responded to "irresponsible and intrusive remarks" made by certain Western countries, and focused much of his criticism on France, Germany and Britain -- advising them to "think twice before questioning the democratic process of the recent election […] BBC/VOA GUIDING UNREST …
2009-06-13 … Western Europe more as an alliance in itself rather than a conglomeration of single nations […] He thinks less about Britain, and Germany, and France, and more about Europe as a whole […] Obama's focus is on the "arc of instability" — the Middle East, Pakistan and Afghanistan […] He does not …
2008-05-01 … 60s. I guessed that it was some kind of strange right wing, anti-communist record Actually it`s rather sweet. “Dany`s Clan” is a group from Alsace (France) close to the German border. Sung with a slight french accent “Berlin-Nie wieder fliehen”( Berlin-Never needing to escape again! …Well, it rhymes in …
2008-05-01 … 60s. I guessed that it was some kind of strange right wing, anti-communist record Actually it`s rather sweet. “Dany`s Clan” is a group from Alsace (France) close to the German border. Sung with a slight french accent “Berlin-Nie wieder fliehen”( Berlin-Never needing to escape again! …Well, it rhymes in …
2009-05-27 … museum, in Abu Dhabi […] The opening of "Peace Camp", a naval and air force base located less than 150 miles from Iran's coastline, demonstrated France's resolve in protecting the United Arab Emirates, said an Elysée official […] If Iran were to attack, we would effectively be attacked also," he …
2009-05-26 … against Iran ...Barak in US next week for Iran talks Mullen insists Iran wants nukes ...Could have nuke in 1 year ...Washington's pipe dream France opens military base in Persian Gulf […] HOUSE OF ISRAEL Obama betrays the liberals ...Obama's democratic authoritarianism ...Obama to create …
2009-03-16 … (chosen with a wildcard) 19. The Netherlands (chosen with a wildcard) The Final (May 16th) 1. Semi-Final qualifier 2. Semi-Final qualifier 3. France 4. Semi-Final qualifier 5. Semi-Final qualifier 6. Semi-Final qualifier 7. Semi-Final qualifier 8. Semi-Final qualifier 9. Semi-Final qualifier 10. …
2007-04-27 PARIS - France does not plan to stay in Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said Friday, hours before a deadline for a pullout of French troops in …
2007-04-25 … Hedayatzadeh, former Iranian envoy to Rome where he formed tight ties with ENI. NICO, which enjoys large credit lines with major banks such as France’s BNP Paribas and Calyon and Japan’s JBIC, played a big part in financing the South Pars gas fields. It has just announced that it will shortly …
2008-11-24 … threat in nearly a century, the woman once dubbed “Miss World” by a German tabloid has receded into the background. As President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister, bask in praise at their decisive handling of the crisis, the talk in Whitehall, Brussels and the ornate …
2008-04-11 … German soldiers have died in Afghanistan since 2001 but, unlike their counterparts, they can never receive anything like Britain’s Victoria Cross or France’s Legion of Honour as their country has allowed no such award since the end of the second world war. Soldiers can be decorated for long service in …
2009-06-21 … Online, an Iranian on line daily made up of independent and reformist journalists, and published by Iran Gooya media group, which is registered in France. You can access the translation, side by side with the Farsi, and with links to the source and some definitions here. "Date: June 20, 2009 In the …
2009-06-19 … reach 700,000 jobs in the private sector. Consumption growth is still positive (forecast at +0.7%), though saving rates are about to rise slightly. France seems thus in a much better position than the rest of the euro area, for which GDP is forecast to contract by 5.6% and consumption by -1.6%." 6. …
2009-06-18 … away control of this natural resource,' [Morales has] said. He acknowledges, however, that a foreign partner is needed. The government is talking to France's Bollore Group, South Korea's LG Group and Japan's Sumitomo and Mitsubishi. Bollore has been asked to join the government's scientific commission …
2009-06-16 … treatment of the protesters, but there are legal challenges to the German sanctions regimes that look likely to succeed. AFP reports that Germany, France, and the UK have officially protested to the Iranian government regarding the treatment of peaceful protesters. Meanwhile, Holger Stark at Der …
2008-07-15 You must be referring to the Coalition of the Bribed and Threatened. Obama IS visiting France whose advice we should have followed and not invaded Iraq.
2008-10-06 … saving rates from 1980 through 2001 averaged 13% in Japan, 12% in Germany, and 15% in France, with no steep declines after 1994; in fact, in France, the saving rate rose slightly. For the United Kingdom, the personal saving rate was close to the U.S. rate during the 1980 to 1994 period, …
2009-06-19 … Ulm in Germany. If the Germans don’t get cracking, they’ll have to close this plant due to the ban – and, who knows, perhaps buy electricity from France to replace what’s lost.
2008-07-25 … a possible nuclear threat against Israel… De Winter: … but what good does it do? Remember the so-called troika, the foreign ministers of Germany, France and the UK: Joschka Fischer, Dominique de Villepin and Jack Straw. They flew to Tehran and back, drank tea and coffee with Iranian politicians and …
2009-06-30 In 1989, when the 'foulard' controversy first arose in France, the bicentennial celebrations of the revolution provided a political, intellectual and moral context for those who wanted to suppress the wearing …
2005-11-09 … Islamist leaders may be directing disaffected foot soldiers. Captain Ed takes the suggestion further by noting evidence of planned Muslim attacks in France and other countries. On the other side we have people like Stephen Schwartz and Ralph Peters, who insist that the socio-economic factors that have …
2005-09-17 … an article about a major event to first appear on the newsstands. On 11. August, Le Figaro first reported that “the heat wave is killing people” in France. On 14. August, according to the Washington Post, French government officials reported that at least 3,000 people had died from the heat wave. By …
2009-07-05 … to take and keep it, and so men had to come here who were dissatisfied with the old country -- who were dissatisfied with England, dissatisfied with France, with Germany, with Ireland and Holland. The kings' favorites stayed at home. Men came here for liberty, and on account of certain principles they …
2009-07-01 … the latest reactors compare? Take, for example, the state-of-the-art 3rd generation EPR reactor currently being built by Areva in Finland and France in such a disastrous fashion. According to research prepared for the UK’s department of business, ‘a 25 year timescale’ is what we can expect for …
2009-06-21 … it was 2009. Now it’s 2012 at the earliest. Would you like to bet money on that? Or what about the reactor Areva are building at Flamanville in France? In August this year we reported that, after nine months of construction, the project is nine months behind schedule. You have to admit that’s an …
2009-06-14 … interests to marginalize wind, solar and tidal power are directly contradicted by the facts. In countries such as Finland, Iceland, Germany and France, investments in wind and geo-thermal power over the past decades have brought ample rewards —- economic, environmental and political. American …
2009-06-14 … The thing is the problems at OL3 aren’t exclusive to this construction project. Look at Areva’s construction of another EPR reactor in Flamanville, France. Like OL3, it’s also wildly over budget and behind schedule. The construction in Flamanville has also seen the same defects and safety violations as …
2005-11-12 … Fueling the French Riots There has been an avalanche of commentaries in the media in the US – where I happen to be at the moment – on the riots in France. Banalities have been mixed with more serious attempts at analysis. The latest issue of Business Week can be seen as fairly representative of how …
2009-07-02 In France, those two words stand for one of the most important events on the French calendar: The Tour of France. The 2009 Tour begins Saturday, July 4. Rather fitting, as America's hopes in this event have been given a kick in the butt by the return of Lance …
2005-09-20 … a consequence of the latter approach, the electoral result has been a disaster as now pressing reforms in Germany will be frustrated and Italy and France will dilly-dally too. Europe is now also probably lumped with a third-way politican such as Schroeder who specialises in �spin�. Therefore don�t …
2005-09-19 … argument. – In the US, most of the pollsters were correct. Some of them gave Florida to Kerry but some also considered it too close to call. – In France, the pollsters were right. Chirac just didn’t bother to notice. “Yes” was catching up with “no” in the last week but it wasn’t good enough. – In …
2009-03-25 … ` Click […] FRANCE […] Pay scandals fuel French anti-business anger ` Quote: ` payoff for the outgoing boss of car parts supplier Valeo while the company is receiving …
2003-03-07 … in The Onion. Like I've done in other places at Amiland, The Onion reminds us that many Americans have European heritage: "Their ancestors came from France, from Germany, from Italy -- places where they have naked breasts on the cover of mainstream magazines."
2009-07-04 … News, the plan for 86 GWe would place China’s eventual build at second rank globally behind the U.S. fleet which is now at 100 GWe but ahead of France at 63 GWe and Japan at 46 GWe. These rankings could change over time depending on how the other nations pursue nuclear energy as a response to …
2009-06-18 … including preparing a plant siting study and licensing documents for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. UniStar is a joint alliance between France's EDF and Constellation Energy (NYSE:CEG). The energy park follows an effort by the U.S. Department of Energy to convert former weapons sites for …
2009-06-13 … action before the summer adjournment. If Congress gives the agreement a green light, it could put considerable competitive pressure on the French bid. Italy will generate nuclear power by 2018 Dow Jones News Wires reports that Italy will generate electricity from a new nuclear reactor by 2018. …
2009-06-07 … In the telephone discussion which took place June 5, he talks about Areva’s lessons learned from building new nuclear reactors in Finland and France and how these “first-of-a-kind” projects will make for better nuclear reactors when they are built in the U.S. Areva has plans to build four so far …
2009-06-06 … Isotopes or Areva itself will recover the fluorine gas. Areva has been conducting what is called “uranium deconversion” at its enrichment plants in France for over two decades. Once the fluorine is removed from the depleted uranium, it can be safely disposed of in a licensed landfill. The reason is the …
2009-07-07 … that law enforcement is on the job and truly putting their lives on the line. Lance Armstrong pulls up to third place (from 10th) in the Tour de France. What can I say? He's baaaaaaaaack! I flew the flag on Saturday for the Fourth of July. I'm glad I did. Sure, it's said that Michael Jackson has …
2009-06-29 … reactors to meet the province's electricity needs over the next two decades. AECL was competing against two global players to build the reactors: France's Areva SA and Westinghouse Electric Co. Mr. Smitherman today said AECL was the only company that submitted a bid that complied with the terms and …
2007-01-30 … were to happen, there would also be a reason for that. Namely that those two teams would have been playing better than giants like Germany or France. No team can advance to the final game just because their association voted for Platini. One of the prerequisites for Björn Hoeftmann’s piece of …
2007-02-08 … From these charts, it can be seen that the real "workhorses" of emissions-free electricity are nuclear and hydroelectricity. Norway, Sweden, and France have very low emissions electricity because they use predominantly hydroelectric and nuclear. Here are the pie charts […] Belgium …
2007-05-08 … I want to tell all of the children throughout the world, all of the ill-treated women throughout the world - I want to tell them that it will be France's pride and its duty to be at their side. France will be at the side of the Libyan nurses [Bulgarian nurses imprisoned in Libya], imprisoned for …
2009-05-10 … Important features of the research have been independently corroborated by Mark Basile in New Hampshire and by physicist Frédéric Henry-Couannier in France., proceeding from earlier scientific reports on these discoveries (e.g., by Prof. Jones speaking at a Physics Dept. Colloquium at Utah Valley …
2009-06-26 … will be doing over the weekends definitely helped settle some of my nerves. I can’t wait to see places like Amsterdam, Prague, Northern Italy, and France […] Over all I am excited. I have finished getting everything I need for the trip. I am in the process of packing. It will be interesting trying …
2009-06-22 … had an interest in ancient italian art and am planning on visiting an art museum. Other travel plans include going to Switzerland, Prague, and France. I have always been a very sheltered person; always shy, reserved, and dependent on others for the most part so I am proud of myself for taking this …
2009-05-08 … may have been mortgages, car loans, consumer loans and even loans to SMEs". Deploring the absence of the Czech Presidency, Pervenche Berès (PES, France) criticised Mr McCreevy's attitude, opposing regulatory intervention negated by the financial crisis at the end of this legislative period. …
2009-02-22 … compared to others, investors are demanding increasingly higher interest to lend to countries such as Italy instead of Germany or Greece instead of France. Ministers and officials fear that the process could herald a spiral that threatens the EU's wider, and Eurozone's narower, integrity. The secret …
2009-02-12 … suggested that French car manufacturers operating in new EU member-states, such as the Czech Republic and Slovakia, should switch production to France and protect French jobs. Tensions rose on Tuesday when Mr Topolanek accused unnamed eurozone governments of “deforming” the project of European …
2008-12-09 … to the €200bn figure initially put forward by the European Commission. After early opposition, German Chancellor Angela Merkel pressed by UK and France moved to support a planned EU-wide stimulus package at a lower figure of €130bn. The 27 EU countries are tsked to give away 1% of their GDP to …
2009-07-06 … decline, China has not really stopped piling on greenbacks--that much is clear. In China's latest salvo, it is actually countering calls by France and Russia to discuss the matter of the dollar prior to the upcoming G-8 meeting. In the process, it is making some odd comments about the debate on …
2009-02-18 Suck it, Austria. The Alpine Ski World Championships have ended in Val d'Isère, France, where the Swiss team usurped Austria for the first time in a decade to win the most medals […] Austria took second on the medal table with five …
2009-02-03 … more than Americans' minds. Even France (a profiligate spender by anyone's reckoning) is saying no to an Obama-style spending spree as explained by France's Prime Minister: "It would be irresponsible to chose another policy, which would increase our country's indebtedness without having more …
2009-06-25 There is no USFI affiliate in France – who is the sucessor to the LCR then? Why the so much of a ruck against the establishent of the SSP – thw British left has always equated …
2009-06-25 … of the “British Left” do not operate a one party / one state model. Joe Higgins did not lose his Dail seat in 2008. There is no USFI affiliate in France. The left organisations in Ireland did not have an agreement to avoid electoral clashes, and in fact did stand against each other. The Workers and …
2009-04-03 Associated Press STRASBOURG, France – President Barack Obama took his new strategy for the war in Afghanistan on Friday to NATO leaders reluctant to commit significant new forces. The …
2009-01-30 … long-term competitiveness. Admit, further, that all governments are in the hidden subsidy game right now, whether they boast about it, as in France, or deny it as stoutly as Lord Mandelson – whose “this is not a bailout” brings to mind Magritte’s famous “ceci n’est pas une pipe” painting. Why …
2009-06-21 … late Saturday. On Sunday evening, it said the four others had been released but that Hashemi remained in detention. However, Iran’s ambassador to France Seyed Mehdi Miraboutalebi said on France’s RFI radio that Hashemi had been released. Last week, state television showed images of Hashemi, 46, …
2009-06-15 … respected,” he told reporters. EU foreign ministers expressed “serious concern” and called for an inquiry into the conduct of the election, while France and Germany each summoned their Iranian ambassadors to explain what was going on. Ahmadinejad supporters protested at French and UK embassies in …
2009-06-16 … to be taking a wait-and-see approach, including the European Union and China, Germany, Italy and Japan — nations with strong economic ties to Iran. France said it was closely following the situation […] Associated Press, June 13, 2009 For those who look to “world opinion,” “the opinion of mankind,” or …
2006-06-25 … EU since the 1960’s, and is now closer than ever to entry. Yet the path to membership is still far from certain, due mainly to obstreperousness from France, the Netherlands and others. The debate hinges on many angles – the nature of Turkey’s government and society, Islam, disparities in GDP per capita, …
2006-06-02 … its case without alienating virtually every non-holder of an American passport. It first relied on negotiations led by the “European 3” – Britain, France, and Germany – during which Iran acquiesced to halting enrichment for a time. But Iran knew that the European trio’s silent partner held the key to …
2006-05-18 On the Anniversary of a Riot On May 17, 1968, a general strike paralyzed France. Started by angry students at Paris’ Sorbonne, the powerful French Labor unions eventually joined, resulting in millions of French workers walking …
2009-07-08 … large states such as Austria and Saxony to tiny principalities and independent cities. Some of these local rulers followed Louis XIV’s example from France of displaying their power and wealth through patronage of the arts. Many aristocrats were also enthusiastic amateur performers who often became …
2009-07-07 … production, during April all Mediterranean countries registered two digit contractions with Slovenia falling 24.9%, Italy 24.2%, Spain 19.7%, France 19.4% Greece 12.2% and Portugal 11.1%. Data for Cyprus and Malta is not yet available (ANSAmed […] Hat tip: Insubria [Return to …
2009-07-06 … democratic country has lived through similar periods of trial and error until they were able to forge legal frameworks that adapt to their reality. France crafted more than a dozen constitutions between 1789 and the adoption of the current one in 1958. The US Constitution has been amended 27 times …
2007-06-22 … the waters, they take. And even the ‘left-wing’ press are at it! Read The Guardian’s report which says that Brown ‘ordered’ Blair to stand up to France. And The Telegraph talks about the end of the truce between Blair & Brown after Blair’s ‘cave-in’! REALLY!? Harking back to my thoughts after …
2007-06-22 … sent Our Boys into action. Disillusion began with mass immigration and the nightly TV images of so-called refugees pouring across the Channel from France. Ministers made a token show of resistance. And when Home Office minister Barbara Roche admitted we were being “swamped by bogus asylum seekers”, …
2007-06-13 … Minister has welcomed an agreement at the G8 summit on how to tackle climate change and global warming. Speaking to journalists after talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Mr Blair said that leaders of the major industrialised nations had taken “a major, major step forward […] There was …
2009-07-04 … incident had occurred at the end of the 90s, when Mohammad Khatami, the reformist president of Iran at that time, had paid an official visit to France. Elaborate negotiations were started. It was even suggested that wine bottles might be hidden in cupboards, in order not to offend Iranian guests. …
2008-09-23 … Lithuania’s nuclear power plant may be supplied by one of four global producers, including US Westinghouse and General Electric, Canada’s Candu and France’s Areva. As Saulius Specius, Leo LT board member said during the press conference and BNS reported, “They all are working with us. Which one is …
2008-09-23 … oppose national troops going to the defence of the three states, compared with only 26 per cent who say they would support it. Only in Britain and France do more people support the idea of their armies defending the Baltic states than oppose it. Have a look at the survey. Needless to say more…
2007-06-02 … company, EADS, and revise the controversial reconstruction plan Power 8. He also guaranteed that the closure-threatened Méaulte factory in northern France would be kept open. After the meeting union officials expressed enthusiasm for his visit. They are attracted to the pronounced nationalism that …
2008-12-25 … by the thousand, industries from textiles to steel have been promised handouts and rebates. Subsidies will beget more subsidies: Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s president, says that Europe will turn into an “industrial wasteland” if it too does not prop up its manufacturers. They will also invite …
2008-11-24 … less than $200. In Albania, it was less than $50. According to the Paris-based Geopolitical Drug Watch, which advises the governments of Britain and France on illegal narcotics operations, one kilogram (2.2 pounds) of heroin costs $8,300 in Albania, which lies at the western terminus of a “Balkan Route” …
2006-10-28 Ongoing ‘intifada’ in France has injured 2,500 police in 2006 Special to World Tribune.com GEOSTRATEGY-DIRECT.COM Friday, October 27, 2006 This might have dropped below the …
2006-10-27 … By Times Online and agencies Armed youths today hijacked and burned a bus in Paris on the eve of the anniversary of the riots which tore through France last year. Around ten hooded men, five of them carrying handguns, put a weapon to the head of the driver and forced him and his passengers off a …
2006-10-26 … German Chancellor Angela Merkel acted quickly to ensure that the German state-owned bank KfW would buy Daimler-Chrysler’s eads shares. “We want France and Germany to have an equal say in the eads project,” Merkel explained. The potential corporate restructuring of eads has created a political …
2006-10-23 … violence and despair continue to grip the immigrant suburbs FLAMES lick around a burning car on a tiny telephone screen. Omar, 17, a veteran of France’s suburban riots, replayed the sequence with pride. “It was great. We did lots of them and then we went out and torched more the next day.”Omar, …
2006-10-20 Muslims Create “Intifada”—in France Friday, October 20, 2006 Twelve months on from the devastating riots that plunged France into a state of emergency, the Muslim immigrant populations in parts of the country remain as volatile as ever. A surge of violent attacks against …
2007-08-11 … be the main protagonists, but he thinks we are being built up to be let down. And he believes it is deliberate and already planned and agreed. And France is in on it too! FRANCE? Didn’t think they did war. Ah but leur homme du moment est Nicolas Sarkozy. La version 2 de Tony Blair, n’est-il pas ? Mr …
2005-09-17 … would later lynch itself. Chancellor Kohl and his party eventually found themselves victims of success, not unusual in Germany. And the leaders of France could finally express their true sentiments without the nagging necessity of grudging gratitude toward the United States. Nearing two decades on, …
2005-09-17 … following 9/11, the United States did not enjoy the fabled goodwill many commentators claim existed. On the contrary, the German weekly Die Zeit, France' Le Monde and the UK's Guardian -- to name a few -- were littered with articles echoing the grievances of Osama Bin Laden about American support for …
2005-09-17 … "A year after the war in Iraq, discontent with America and its policies has intensified rather than diminished. Opinion of the United States in France and Germany is at least as negative now as at the war’s conclusion, and British views are decidedly more critical. Perceptions of American …
2009-07-03 … frontier. If, as I am going to imagine it, there is a vibe in Herzen that comes from therapeutic nihilism, and a likeness of his doctor to one of France’s most prominent radicals, Raspail, there is also a vibe in that struggling dyad, the woman and the doctor. A very nineteenth century vibe, indeed. …
2009-07-01 … in Physics, but he was certainly interested in medicine, and knew members of the medical faculty. Was he aware of what was happening in Vienna? In France, medical journals after 1860 use the term nihilisme therapeutique to refer to practices like that of Laennec’s, in the 1820s, with regard to …
2009-06-30 … class interpenetrated for one startling moment. A wall fell, a sort of pentacost of tongues broke out in the streets. Most observers claim that, in France at least, the revolution came as a stunning surprise. Mark Traugott, who has studied the worker’s movement of 1848, wrote that “although in …
2009-06-27 … into the underhistory of Europe’s intellectual life, Danton’s statement about St. Just: “Je n’aime pas cet extravagant. Il veut apporter à la France une république de Sparte, et c’est un république de Cocagne qu’il nous faut.” It is a Republic of Cocagne that we need. And if, after all, material …
2009-06-24 … had finally crushed any hope for revolution in France, Herzen published a letter – which he included as his fourteenth letter in the Letters from France and Italy – in which he draws some conclusions about the morphology of revolution. Some of his observations seem particularly applicable to Iran – …
2009-07-03 … 60 Minutes, the O'Reilly Factor, and the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, as well as on international television news programs in Britain, Australia, France, Spain, Japan, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, China, and Germany. He has been interviewed for broadcast media and documentaries -- including …
2009-05-22 … Old Pope Leo Die: the political tendencies of his successor. The Cardinal who would probably win the prize – his Polish supporter – affairs in France and Germany – Spurgeon’s return – Lord Lorne’s appointment”, The New York Times, January 23, 1892 http://query.nytimes.com/mem/a […] ref=slogin …
2009-04-11 … statement in the book Great Controversy, page 279 concerning the French Revolution. “With the flight of the Huguenots a general decline settled upon France. Flourishing manufacturing cities fell into decay; fertile districts returned to their native wildness; intellectual dullness and moral declension …
2009-07-04 … it extensively covered anti-Shah demonstrations and activities of the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who was in exile in France. Iran’s leaders have countered Western condemnation with increasingly angry rhetoric. The confrontation appears to be dashing hopes for a new …
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