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EU austerity hawks shrug off criticism of flawed academic paper
Despite a new paper detailing flaws in the Rogoff-Reinhart study that has been used to argue in favor of austerity policies, Europe's austerity advocates are holding ...
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Editorial €300000 worth of jewellery swiped so many explanations
Ah, the irony. The Cannes Film Festival - promoter of any number of heist movies - was itself the scene of an audacious robbery yesterday. Indeed, it was on the very day of the screening of The Bling Ring (about a gang that burgles the rich and famous while they are strutting the red carpet) that thieves swiped EUR300,000 (250,000) worth of jewellery that was to adorn Hollywood's A-listers ...
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The Saturday Profile Olli Rehn Tries to Shed Austerity Label
BRUSSELS OLLI REHN, the European ...
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Salacious and Sober Collide Illustrating Hurdles for Italys Government
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Russias missiles will embolden Syria US
Russia's shipment of anti-ship missiles to Syria will 'embolden' the Syrian government and fuel the country's civil war, the US military's top officer ...
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Homophobia rife in EU report
Two-thirds of Europe's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are still afraid to show their sexuality in public and a quarter have been victims of physical or verbal attacks, an EU report says."Fear, isolation and discrimination are everyday phenomena for the LGBT community in Europe," the director of the European Union's Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Morten ...
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Most European gays afraid and threatened poll
Almost two-thirds of Europe's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are still afraid to show their sexuality in public and most feel discriminated against, an EU report says."Fear, isolation and discrimination are everyday phenomena for the LGBT community in Europe," the director of the European Union's Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Morten Kjaerum, wrote in ...
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U.S.-Russian Diplomacy With a Personal Touch
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Kerry-Lavrov Ties Grow Despite U.S.-Russia Spats
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Russia’s farmers may collect 95 mln tonnes of grain this year - minister
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US dethrones champion Russia
/enpproperty--> Paul Stastny of the Colorado Avalanche had two goals and two assists, and Nashville's Craig Smith added five assists to help the United States rout Russia 8-3 on Thursday in the world hockey quarterfinals. David Moss, Ryan Carter, Nate Thompson, Jacob Trouba, T.J. Oshie and Alex Galchenyuk also scored and John Gibson made 31 saves. "We felt proud of our ...
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China to invest more in Greece
Containers are backlogged at the port of Piraeus, near Athens. China will expand its investment in the port, considered a vital gateway for shipping heading to Europe. ...
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Spy row Russian names CIAs Moscow chief
Russian security forces . Footage was aired showing him wearing a blond wig and his array of spying equipment, including a compass and an old-fashioned mobile phone. An unnamed representative of the FSB security services told the Interfax news agency that back in 2011, the agency had "officially warned" the CIA station chief in Moscow over what it called "provocative recruiting ...
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Russia France Planning 7 Kourou Launches by 2015
MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia and France will carry out seven Soyuz-ST carrier rocket launches from the Kourou space center in French Guiana by the end of 2014, Russia’s Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said. Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin and President of France’s Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) Jean-Yves Le Gall reaffirmed the launch schedule ...
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Debt becoming serious problem in Netherlands
Uncertainty in the workplace is increasing in the Netherlands, King Willem-Alexander has acknowledged. Photograph: Michel Porro/Getty ...
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Conflict injuries fail to curb the human spirit in Turkish border city of Reyhanli
In the town of Reyhanli near the Turkish-Syrian border a protester shouts slogans against Turkey's prime minister Tayyip Erdogan during a demonstration against the Turkish government's policy on Syria. Photograph: Reuters/Umit ...
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UK sales boom lifts European gloom
Europe's struggling car industry ended a dire 18-month run of declining sales in April thanks to booming sales in the UK, figures showed ...
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Eurovsion Can Tyler Beat Favourites Denmark
To have a chance of winning this year's Eurovision Song Contest, British hope Bonnie Tyler will have to outperfom the hot favourites from ...
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European Stocks Post Fourth Weekly Gain on Results U.K.
Renault (RNO) SA led shares of automobile companies higher as the region's car sales increased for the first time in 19 months. Suedzucker AG plunged 16 percent after saying full-year operating profit will decline. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index advanced 1.2 percent to 308.72 this week, completing its longest streak of weekly gains since March 15. The measure has rallied 10 percent so far ...
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U.S. slams Russia for missile sales
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration denounced Russia on Friday for providing Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime with anti-ship missiles, saying the weapons would only worsen a war that Washington and Moscow have been promising to work together to ...
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The euro zone economy is declining for six consecutive quarters. Nine of the 17 countries are in recession Spain France Italy Finland Netherlands Portugal Cyprus Greece and Slovenia. The austerity policy imposed by the troika and the German govern
The euro zone economy is declining for six consecutive quarters. Nine of the 17 countries are in recession: Spain, France, Italy, Finland, Netherlands, Portugal, Cyprus, Greece and Slovenia. The austerity policy imposed by the troika and the German government of Angela Merkel is sinking Europe. Eurostat data was released on Wednesday (15th) and are relative to GDP in the euro area in the first ...
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World Briefing | Europe British Poisoning Inquest Constrained
A coroner overseeing a British inquest into the 2006 poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian security agent, ruled Friday that he had to exclude evidence on whether the Russian state was involved in the killing. The coroner, Robert Owen, said he accepted an application made by Foreign Secretary William Hague to keep some evidence surrounding the case secret on national security ...
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Kerry Meets Bangladeshi Counterpart
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says the United States wants to see Bangladesh move forward on improving labor standards after a building collapse that killed hundreds of garment ...
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Tommy Battaglia 89 was mayor of Little Italy
Tommy Battaglia was just two when his family first moved to San Diego's Little Italy, and seven when he came back to live for good. The longtime owner of Tommy's Quality Meats, who gave hot dogs and pickles to the neighborhood children to draw their parents to his shop, became a personality in the community through the years and was dubbed the Mayor of Little ...
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Europe investors bow to Africa Asia in U.S. real estate deals
The panel analyzing capital investment in U.S. real estate, from left, were: John R. Miller, Charles H. Fedalen Jr., Christopher R. Ludeman, J. Michael Stedman and Jon H. ...
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Denmark's Russian relationship
Danish relations with Russia have existed for several centuries, with the first recorded diplomatic relations dating from 1493, when King Hans and Ivan III signed a treaty aimed at planning an offensive against Sweden and Lithuania. Since then the relations between the two countries have grown closer, frayed, become tense, reconciled and stagnated at different points throughout the history of their respective political development.
Denmark and Russia have always been economically and politically important to one another though. Denmark, since the end of the Cold War, has acted as a bridge between the east and west, and during much of the tumultuous politics of the post-war and Cold War period, remained largely neutral in many affairs concerning Russia. In 1939 the country refused to support measures to expel Russia from the then-League of Nations, and resisted attempts by Nordic countries to set up a defense alliance for the region. Read more
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