Ratings Agency Standard & Poor’s Threatens To Downgrade Eurozone
Standard & Poor’s puts 15 single currency members on “credit watch negative”, including top-rated France and Germany. One of the world’s leading credit-rating agencies has warned that it may carry out an unprecedented mass downgrade of European countries if regional leaders fail to reach an agreement on how to solve the More...
Sarkozy And Merkel: New EU Treaty
French and German leaders say they want new agreement, with automatic punishments for states who overspend, by March. The leaders of Germany and France have agreed on the need for a new European Union treaty to More...
Greenpeace Penetrates French Nuclear Plant
Activists hang banner on reactor building in what they say was operation to expose weaknesses in national security. Greenpeace activists secretly entered a French nuclear site before dawn and draped a banner reading More...
WikiLeaks Assange Granted Right To Appeal UK Extradition
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was granted on Monday the right to appeal his extradition from Britain to Sweden at the Supreme Court. British judges said at a hearing that the Court of Appeal will not force the More...
Syrian and Iran Regime Faces Fresh Sanctions
William Hague joins other European Union foreign ministers in Brussels to discuss fresh sanctions on Iran, aimed at deepening the country’s economic isolation following the attack on the British embassy in More...
Russia Aims Activated Radar at Europe
Acting in response to U.S. missile shield plans in Europe, Russia has activated a Voronezh-class missile attack early warning radar station. President Dmitry Medvedev attended the station’s opening in Kaliningrad, More...
UK Paid £100 a Month To Taliban With Full Support Of NATO For No-Kill Mission
The “reintegration” programme, which has the full support of Nato, is intended to keep them from attacking troops from the International Stabilisation and Assistance Force (ISAF). Those who have attacked More...
Portugal’s Rating Downgraded to Junk Bond Status
Agency cites poor economic prospects, high levels of debt With the storm still raging in the euro-zone sovereign debt market, Fitch on Thursday said it had cut Portugal’s rating to junk status, citing the country’s More...
Who remembers the Senate in Spain?
If anyone among us had any doubts about the uselessness of the Spanish Senate, they will surely have been cleared up by the general election on November 20, 2011. Practically none of the media organizations said More...
Eviction Protestors in Spain Fight With Police
Between 60 and 70 people on Thursday stopped what would have been the second home eviction within a 24-hour period in the Madrid town of Torrejón de Ardoz. Luis Mendes, a 40-yearold immigrant from Guinea-Bissau More...