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Italy, Germany, Europe: the latest outbursts by Silvio Berlusconi
Given the extremely fragile basis on which Enrico Letta’s ‘big coalition’ government rests, it is widely believed that Silvio Berlusconi’s recent broadside against austerity as espoused by Angela Merkel ...
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It is standard practice for analysts, commentators and even eminent economists to liken today’s economic-financial crisis, which started in 2008 and still plagues us, to the Great Slump of the 1930s. ...
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The question on the European economic agenda at the moment is whether Slovenia, first of the ex Yugoslav countries to join the Union, would now join the club of bailout seekers. The economy in this country ...
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One of the crucial instruments of the British parliamentary system is the institution of the Whip, that is, a sort of group leader with full powers to ensure that the MPs vote in a way that is compliant ...
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Given the extremely fragile basis on which Enrico Letta’s ‘big coalition’ government rests, it is widely believed that Silvio Berlusconi’s recent broadside against austerity as espoused by Angela Merkel and the Berlin (read more) One of the crucial instruments of the British parliamentary system is the institution of the Whip, that is, a sort of group leader with full powers to ensure that the MPs vote in a way that is compliant with the party’s directives. There are (read more) A government with a strong pro-European connotation and an articulated as well as ambitious diplomatic agenda: this is the profile that the PD-PDL executive chaired by Enrico Letta appears to have. Formerly Minister for Community Polciies in 1998-99, (read more)
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The pundits have long been warning that terrorism on US soil might come from a domestic matrix. Obama’s vigorous war on terrorism, resorting to drones and a coolly calculated assassination campaign, has decimated the Al Qaeda leadership and its (read more) Back in 2001, when the then President of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Jim O’Neill, coined the term BRIC – an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India and China (later an ‘S’ for South Africa would be added) – many shook (read more) The event presented complicated features right from the beginning. In February 2012 the marines Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone killed, probably mistaking them for pirates attacking their ship, two Indian fishermen and the New Delhi (read more)
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It is standard practice for analysts, commentators and even eminent economists to liken today’s economic-financial crisis, which started in 2008 and still plagues us, to the Great Slump of the 1930s. There are, of course, many analogies between (read more) The question on the European economic agenda at the moment is whether Slovenia, first of the ex Yugoslav countries to join the Union, would now join the club of bailout seekers. The economy in this country is at the moment in a deep recession with (read more) On 2 April 2013 the Cypriot government adopted, two weeks after the closure of the banks, measures to deal with the banking crisis which broke out at the start of the year, and the chronic deficits in the public accounts and in the foreign accounts. (read more)
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The success of the UK Independence Party at the local British elections on 2nd May went beyond all expectations. Farage’s party actually got 23% of the votes, just behind the Labour Party (29%) and breathing down the necks of the Conservatives (read more) Given the prolonged birth pangs of any new Italian government after last February’s ‘hung’ election, expectations were pinned on the election of the Speakers to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate: the first official act by the (read more) Needless to say, the question is rhetorical and there is no International. Fortunately, we might say. But the impact of the success of Grillo’s Five Star Movement (M5S) seems to have exceeded all expectations, and gone beyond the derisive cover (read more)
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