Friday, 14 June 2013 Unlike Macedonia who seems to be willing to endure just about anything, Iceland shocked the EU last night by… showing self respect!? Iceland’s bid to join the EU is over, the country’s foreign minister told… Read More ›
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Erdogan: Protest ‘will be over in 24 hours’ – Published time: June 12, 2013 19:57
The Turkish Prime Minister says protests at Taksim Square and Gezi Park ‘will be over in 24 hours.’ This comes hours after Tayyip Erdogan met a group of activists, in an attempt to start dialog, and vowed to… Read More ›
Europe warns US: Do what you like to Americans, but Do Not spy on Europeans
Wednesday, 12 June 2013 The EU has warned President Barack Obama’s administration of “grave adverse consequences” to the rights of European citizens from a huge US Internet surveillance programme, officials said Wednesday. Viviane Reding, the EU’s Justice Commissioner, wrote… Read More ›
EU official wants criminal penalties for joining Syrian fighting
Source: Reuters – Wed, 5 Jun 2013 07:18 PM Author: Reuters BRUSSELS, June 5 (Reuters) – European countries should make it a criminal offence to fight in foreign rebellions or receive jihadist training overseas, the EU’s counter-terrorism chief said… Read More ›
EDA To Hold EU’s First War Game To Assess Military Capabilities
May. 31, 2013 – 11:12AM | By JULIAN HALE | BRUSSELS — The European Defence Agency (EDA) will organize the EU’s first ever war game from June 4-6 in The Hague to assess future European military capability requirements. Results will… Read More ›
Coming to your local supermarket soon: Chicken à la maggots
Tom Bawden Wednesday, 29 May 2013 “Our chicken, pork and fish dishes are fed only the finest protein-rich maggots that have been reared on a diet of cow and pig excrement, washed down with a wee dram of whisky.”… Read More ›
The Obama administration Warns Britain if it tries to exit the E.U.
EU exit would put US trade deal at risk, Britain warned Obama officials say that the UK would probably be excluded from a trade agreement worth billions a year if it leaves the EU Julian Borger, Diplomatic editor guardian.co.uk, Monday 27… Read More ›
Nobel Laureate: No one serious would enter the EU…. Iceland drops bid
Friday, 24 May 2013 Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps warned against the dangers of European Union membership as Iceland became the latest nation to question the sense of affiliation with a bloc mired in economic crisis. Iceland’s new government said… Read More ›
Let’s quit EU say 46 per cent of voters in poll / Just 30 per cent say they want to remain
Nearly half of all voters want Britain to leave the European Union, according to a new ICM poll for The Sunday Telegraph. David Cameron (31 per cent) is the party leader most trusted to negotiate with the EU on Britain’s… Read More ›
EU to ban olive oil jugs from restaurants: 1 January 2014
The European Union is to ban olive oil jugs and dipping bowls from restaurant tables in a move described by one of Britain’s top cooks as authoritarian and damaging to artisanal food makers. The European Union is to ban olive… Read More ›
François Hollande calls for ‘European political union’ within two years; Calls for a more federal Europe
John Lichfield Thursday, 16 May 2013 A beleagured President François Hollande went on the offensive today calling for an “economic government” for the Eurozone and “political union” in Europe within two years. Stung by accusations that he has been too… Read More ›
European Commission to criminalize nearly all seeds, plants not registered with Govt
Tuesday, 07 May 2013 Europe is rushing towards the good ol days circa 1939, 40… A new law proposed by the European Commission would make it illegal to “grow, reproduce or trade” any vegetable seeds that have not been… Read More ›
Troubling levels of toxic metals found in lipstick
Contact: Sarah Yang scyang@berkeley.edu 510-643-7741 University of California – Berkeley Berkeley — A new analysis of the contents of lipstick and lip gloss may cause you to pause before puckering. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Public… Read More ›
‘I give the euro medium-term only a limited chance of survival’ – Merkel’s advisor
© Photo: SXC.hu In an interview for Die Welt, the Chairman of the Council of Scientific Advisors to the German Ministry of Finance Prof. Dr. Kai A. Konrad proposed a compromise between austerity and the desire of the European countries… Read More ›
Czech President: EU Can’t Regulate Everything
Monday, 29 April 2013 Czech President Miloš Zeman has criticized the EU for what he sees as the organization’s excessive desire “to regulate everything.” “The dear EU does not decide what kind of light bulbs I use… Read More ›
Switzerland shuts doors to EU immigrants
Friday, 26 April 2013 The anti-immigration class across Europe has found many new adherents as of late, especially in the most economically devastated countries, like Greece and Italy. But now these Europeans might themselves become the unwelcome migrants, at… Read More ›
Angela Merkel: ‘Austerity makes it sound evil, I call it balancing the budget’
Angela Merkel tried to contain her irritation when asked at a podium discussion in Berlin whether southern European countries could take much more German-ordered austerity. Angela Merkel finds herself under fire from European partners and the centre-left opposition at home… Read More ›
Germany forces EU countries to cede sovereignty
Фото: EPA German Chancellor is trying to use the economic crisis as a pretext for stripping the European countries of the last remnants of their sovereignty. The recent comments and demands made by Angela Merkel will surely anger the eurosceptics… Read More ›
Cyprus bail-out vote stirs fresh jitters as slump fears grow in Europe
Cyprus has stunned EU officials by ordering a vote in its parliament on the terms of the EU-IMF Troika bailout for the country, risking a rejection by angry lawmakers and a fresh eruption of the crisis. The Cypriot parliament threw… Read More ›
Wealth tax to pay for EU bailouts
Monday, 15 April 2013 Wealthy households would face new taxes on property and other assets under German plans to prop up the struggling eurozone. Senior advisers to Chancellor Angela Merkel are pushing for better-off households to pay towards the cost… Read More ›
EMU plot curdles as creditors seize Cyprus gold reserves
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Economics Last updated: April 11th, 2013 Cyprus has agreed to sell gold reserves to raise around €400m. (Photo: Alamy) First they purloin the savings and bank deposits in Laiki and the Bank of Cyprus, including the… Read More ›
Euro parliament ‘an institution where facts are secondary’
The Hungarian prime minister has poured scorn on the European parliament describing it as place where “liberal, left wing and Green MEPs bellow at each other with bulging veins” and as an institution where facts are “secondary”. Mr Orban’s disparaging… Read More ›
Baroness Ashton will be paid £400,000 by the EU to do nothing
Baroness Ashton will be entitled to £400,000 at the taxpayer’s expense over three years for doing nothing after finishing her five year term as the European Union’s foreign minister at the end of 2014. EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs… Read More ›
132 companies ( All Listed ) reportedly had inside knowledge of Cyprus’ impending levy tax as they withdrew deposits worth US$916 million
Cyprus bailout inside info? 132 companies pull out over $900mn in deposits Published time: April 02, 2013 12:20 One hundred and thirty-two companies reportedly had inside knowledge of Cyprus’ impending levy tax as they withdrew deposits worth US$916 million in… Read More ›
‘Risk of a euro exit by Cyprus is substantial’ – Moody’s
Moody’s Photo: EPA After a disastrous bailout of the Cypriot banking system, one of the world’s top rating agencies downgraded the sovereign rating of Cyprus. One of the concerns cited by Moody’s is the possibility of Cyprus leaving the eurozone…. Read More ›
Luxembourg is the next Cyprus
Jean Asselborn, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Immigration of Luxemburg Photo: EPA The offshore countries of the European Union are gripped by fear. No one wants to repeat the fate of Cyprus but it seems that the European authorities are… Read More ›
Cyprus bank controls to last a month, minister says
EEV: Real News from Cyprus has become difficult to obtain. Search engines seem to have been re-prioritized for unknown reasons. * For those looking for accurate news from Cyprus, I recommend http://www.cyprus-mail.com/ – . Customers queue up outside… Read More ›
Defiant EU demands extra £9.5b to cover its budget
The European Union has defied Britain’s attempts to control its spending by demanding an extra £9.5 billion to tide it over until the end of the year. Members of the European Parliament Photo: AFP By Bruno Waterfield, Brussels 1:13PM… Read More ›
Money was already fleeing Cyprus while president fumbled bailout/ Bank of Cyprus — have units in London which remained open throughout the week and placed no limits on withdrawals
Annika Breidthardt, Luke Baker and Michele Kambas, Reuters | 13/03/26 | Last Updated: 13/03/26 1:26 PM ET More from Reuters Getty ImagesPeople withdraw money from Bank of Cyprus ATM’s while employees gather outside the bank’s headquarters in Athens Friday. BRUSSELS/NICOSIA… Read More ›
IMF/EU will steal €100m from the Church
Church says it will lose €100m Published on March 26, 2013 The Church stands to lose more than 100 million euros in the bailout deal reached with international creditors early Monday, its leader Archbishop Chrysostomos said. “The capital owned… Read More ›
EU in “denial” that sick economy costs lives, health experts say
Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:01 GMT Reuters * Financial crisis takes heavy toll on health, experts say * Austerity drive blamed for shredding social safety nets * Iceland shows alternative way as health standards hold up By Ben Hirschler LONDON,… Read More ›
Russian businessmen succeeded in getting their money out of Cyprus before the Levy
Russian oligarchs have outsmarted the EU © Flickr.com/ranil/cc-by-nc-sa 3.0 Judging by the russophobic rhetoric of the European authorities and the European media, the rationale behind the artificially created Cypriot crisis was to expropriate the money from “Russian accounts” held in… Read More ›
Three quarters of a million Britons living in Europe could see their savings raided to help save the European Union’s single currency following the Cyprus debt crisis.
British expats in Cyprus face eurozone raids on their savings By Bruno Waterfield, in Brussels 9:43PM GMT 25 Mar 2013 A senior eurozone figure on Monday suggested the plan to save Cyprus could serve as a template for rescuing… Read More ›
Cyprus deal is model for future bailouts says top European official as banks are told to open
EEV: Second confirmation on the EU’s statements The deal will see investors with more than €100,000 in the nation’s largest banks forfeit a large chunk of their deposits Rob Williams Monday, 25 March 2013 A top European official… Read More ›
Cyprus bank restructuring deal should be considered a template for the rest of the single currency bloc
Dutch Finance Minister and President of the Eurogroup Council Jeroen Dijsselbloem gestures during a joint press conference after a Eurogroup Council meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels on March 25, 2013. Photo: AFP Head of the Eurogroup of eurozone finance… Read More ›
Cyprus bailout: Kremlin ‘could punish Europe’ in reprisal for bank levy
Fears mount that Russia could act against European companies if charge on deposits hits €30bn Russian investments Helena Smith in Nicosia, Simon Goodley and Toby Helm The Observer, Saturday 23 March 2013 15.20 EDT A pressure valve on a Russian… Read More ›
Cyprus, Troika agree to 20% tax on deposits over 100,000 euros at Bank of Cyprus
EEV: Need 2n confirmation. This is the first story in Published time: March 23, 2013 18:31 Edited time: March 23, 2013 19:20 Bank workers shout slogans during a protest outside Cyprus presidential palace in Nicosia on March 23,… Read More ›
Tense in Cyprus, National Guard burns German Flags
Friday, 22 March 2013 Cypriot national guard soldiers have removed German flags from two building and burn them. The buildings housed German soldiers who are engaged in UN peace mission in Lebanon. Bank employees are protesting in Nicosia, earlier in… Read More ›
Cyprus considers taxing a quarter of big deposits at largest bank as president prepares to fly to Brussels to discuss eurozone bailout
Finance minister says ‘significat progress’ is being made with proposals expected as early as this evening Charlotte McDonald-Gibson, Nathalie Savaricas, Steve Anderson Saturday, 23 March 2013 Cyprus MPs are looking at seizing up to a quarter of the value of… Read More ›
Europeans set up financial blockade of Cyprus
Photo: EPA Jacques Sapir, PhD in economics, head of the Center for Studies of the Modes of Industrialization at the French Institute of Social Sciences, one of the leading French specialists in the area of defense economics, a specialist on… Read More ›
Cyprus Keeps Banks Closed indefinitely
Friday, 22 March 2013 Russia rebuffed Cypriot entreaties for aid on Friday, leaving the island’s increasingly isolated leaders scrambling to strike a bailout deal with the European Union by next week or face the collapse of its… Read More ›
Cyprus allows capital controls, creates “solidarity fund”
Photo: EPA Cyprus MPs approved a bill Friday night, granting the government the right to restrict withdrawals from bank accounts in exceptional cases. The parliament in Cyprus also approved a “national solidarity fund” to help the state raise the necessary… Read More ›
EuroGroup insists Cyprus must tax deposits
Photo: EPA The EuroGroup has rejected the Cypriot plan to raise billions of euros for addressing debt problems by nationalizing pension funds and issuing bonds backed by the promise of massive oil and gas profits. 0Reports say it continues to… Read More ›
What if the real reason behind the whole Cyprus crisis is the desire to confiscate the country’s gold?
Could Cyprus’s gold reserves play a part in the crisis? Photo: RIA Novosti The Cyprus bailout proposal made by the Eurogroup is both economically and politically absurd. But what if the real reason behind the whole Cyprus crisis is the… Read More ›
Cyprus banks will not resume operation until Marсh 26
Photo: EPA Banks in debt-hit Cyprus will stay closed until at least Tuesday, a Central Bank official told AFP, after the authority issued a decree stating banks will not open their doors on Thursday and Friday. With Monday a scheduled… Read More ›
Cyprus rescue in chaos as MPs reject bail-out
Nation could face bankruptcy within weeks after terms of £10bn package are voted down Charlotte McDonald-Gibson, Nathalie Savaricas Tuesday, 19 March 2013 Cyprus stood on the brink of bankruptcy tonight after its parliamentarians voted down a bailout deal that would… Read More ›
New EU Plan: Steal Bank Accounts from people
Monday, 18 March 2013 The surprise decision by euro zone leaders to part-fund a bailout of Cyprus by taxing bank deposits sent shockwaves through financial markets on Monday, with shares and the bonds of struggling euro zone governments tumbling…. Read More ›
Frantic day ahead as EU tells Cyprus it can rethink controversial bailout terms as key vote postponed
Cyprus postpones crucial vote on controversial bank deposit levy as stocks plummet around the world John Hall, Charlotte McDonald-Gibson, Nathalie Savaricas Monday, 18 March 2013 German and European bank officials have said Cyprus can amend the terms of its €10… Read More ›
Asian markets fall amid fears over Cyprus bailout deal
Asian markets have dipped after Cyprus bailout plans triggered fears of an escalation of the eurozone debt crisis. The EU and IMF want all bank customers to pay a levy in return for a bailout worth 10bn euros ($13bn;… Read More ›
The decision to raid people’s savings to fund a bail-out for Cyprus sets a “worrying precedent” that could jeopardise the European economic recovery, financial experts have warned.
EU raid on savings to fund bail-out for Cyprus ‘threatens recovery’ By Robert Winnett, and Tom Whitehead 10:00PM GMT 17 Mar 2013 The island’s government has announced that, following pressure from finance ministers in the eurozone, it is introducing a… Read More ›
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