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Then came the benign dictators… A story of doing practically nothing
How many more wake up calls do we need to get our democratic shit together and do something about it? How much closer do we need to get to the fire, before we put it out or burn ourselves out? What is Europe waiting for? Or, are we purposefully procrastinating, because we share, deep down, some of Orban’s ideas?
Germany’s Gabriel Attacks Schäuble Over Greek Bailout Talks
Germany’s new foreign minister sharply criticized the finance ministry’s stance in ongoing talks over Greece’s bailout, according to a letter he sent to Chancellor Merkel…
The lone professor and the Euro Crisis – Dissident voices in Germany argue against Schäuble’s paradigm
By Thomas Jung & Nikos Koulousios Heiner Flassbeck is one of very few Economics professors with a dissenting voice on mainstream neoliberal economics in Europe….
‘Austerity can not deliver prosperity’ – Barack Obama calls for ‘meaningful debt relief’ and ‘end of austerity’ for Greece
ATHENS — Americans have had seven days to come to terms with the election of Donald Trump as president. The Greeks have been dealing with their…
Deutsche Bank: how did a beast of the banking world get into this mess?
Deutsche Bank is facing questions about whether it can afford a penalty of $14bn (£10.5bn) from the US Department of Justice for mis-selling mortgage…
Angela Merkel’s party suffers slump in Berlin election
Berlin is likely to get the first leftwing triple-coalition government in its history, after Angela Merkel’s CDU party and the ruling Social Democrats both plummeted…
Merkel lets comedian face prosecution for Erdoğan poem – Europe gives in to the sultan… (watch the video)
German chancellor under fire for agreeing to Turkish president’s request for prosecution of Jan Böhmermann The chancellor expressed “grave concerns” about the prosecution of individual…
Matteo Renzi picks fight with Angela Merkel at the EU summit
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has built a reputation as a mischief-maker on the European scene, but at a Brussels summit Friday he took it…
“Angela Merkel Is Destroying Europe” – A debate on how Merkel’s austerity is strangling European economies – Watch the video
They’re calling her the devil. Inflammatory words, no doubt, but Europe has every reason to be livid with the German Chancellor. Angela Merkel is causing…