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Political snippets: A troubling report on Europe
A report to be released today by the Demos think tank draws attention to the growth on the continent of extremist right wing political groups.
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Risks outweigh rewards in commercial bank deposits: RBA
The Reserve Bank of Australia has reduced the amount of money on deposit with offshore commercial banks in the past year, ending years of using them to hold part of Australia’s $37 billion official foreign reserves.
Labor’s life is in foreign hands …
A gathering economic storm overseas may wreck Labor’s entire political strategy, write Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer.
PC reveals the great greenhouse rip-off
There can no longer be any doubt — the Australia and overseas experiences shows an ETS is by far the cheapest way to cut emissions
Guy Rundle: Rundle: Mladic’s deserved reckoning and the theatre of EU justice
Mladić deserves a reckoning, but the whole process of EU justice will simply extend the theatre — since any fair assessment should have put Croatia’s Franjo Tudjman and his epigones in the dock too.
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Markets, mandarins and figuring out the seasons: a (food) tour of Europe
A year travelling around Europe meany months of glorious food experiences on a budget. Jean McBain recalls picking out the freshest eggplant and melon at Italian markets and battling the supermarkets in Britain.
Obama and Merkel: the failed love affair
German chancellor Angela Merkel is off to the US, but despite her personal love for the American dream, she has tensions with Barack Obama. His rock star persona doesn’t agree with her calculated political blandness.
Europe’s ETS declared a smashing success
Contrary to popular belief, Europe’s “Great Bix Tax on Everything” has not been a flop. The world’s biggest emissions trading scheme has created a healthy carbon market and brought emissions down. Australia could learn a lot.
Europe still screwed by GFC
The worst may not yet be over for European economies, with the possibility of Greece, or another debt-ridden country, defaulting on their soverign debt obligations and needing to be bailed out by the European Union still high. How will the euro survive the strain?
Europe gets a new constitution — sort of
The big news in Europe this week is the final ratification of the Lisbon treaty, which provides a new constitutional structure for the European Union. But where’s the euroscepticism gone? Has the EU proved its ‘socialist plot’ claims wrong?
V for victory in US economic recovery, Europe not looking so peaceful
Conventional economic wisdom is wrong, writes Anatole Kaletsky. The US economy will probably recover fairly quickly from the GFC, while Europe is likely to incur permanent damage to its economies.
Europe’s labour model weathers financial crisis
European policymakers can be a bit smug at the moment over a labour model that has seen smaller unemployment spikes and less drop-off in consumption.
Falling consumer prices flag further economic turmoil
October is emerging as tipping point for the global economy. With the latest US consumer price numbers, Glenn Dyer reports on what we have tipped into.
