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Tag Archives: European Union
Spectacular bank heist in Cyprus
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 18 March 2013 A gang of ruthless bank robbers has been caught red-handed in the tiny … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, Greece, Russia, USA
Tagged Cyprus, European Union, IMF, Nicos Anastasiades, stability levy
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What is a cigarette?
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 20 December 2012 “A cigarette is a stick with a fire at one end and … Continue reading
Posted in Europe
Tagged cigarette packaging, curbing smoking, European Commission, European Union, Glenis Wilmott, Tonio Borg
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Pointless protest
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 19 November 2012 Last Wednesday 14 November 2012, in protest at the deepening recession being imposed … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain
Tagged Eurocrats, European Union, eurozone, Lehman Brothers, partitocracy
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Globalisation and the European Union
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 2 August 2012 DUBIOUS CULTURAL TOSH The European Union is, in essence, an institution the … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Globalisation, Politics
Tagged Christian, ECSC, European Union, globalisation
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Globalisation and the nation state
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Posted in Economics, Europe, USA
Tagged Christopher Meyer, European Union, Evening Standard, nation state, Tony Blair
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Eurocrats against Grexit
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 6 July 2012 Economist Jonathan Tepper, in his submission for the Wolfson economics prize, proposes that … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, Greece
Tagged European Union, eurozone, Grexit, Jonathan Tepper, Roger Bootle, United States of Europe, Wolfson Prize
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Smelling a rat
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 20 May 2012 POLLS THAT STINK A seminal question about one aspect of the current … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Germany, Greece, UN
Tagged drachma, euro, European Union, Greek polls, smelling a rat
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Referendums “have nothing to do with democracy”, claims EU bureaucrat
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Posted in Economics, Europe, Ireland, Politics
Tagged bureaucracy, elite, European Union, fiscal compact, referendum
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European newspapers “collaborate” in the shadow of the EU propaganda machine
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 26 January 2012 The following is a letter which was received today by the UK’s Guardian … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Politics, Spain, UK
Tagged Brussels, collaboration, European Union, propaganda
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