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New challenge filed to stop euro rescue

Peter Gauweiler, a lawmaker from the Christian Social Union, sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s Christian Democratic Union, said the €500-billion ($630-billion) new ESM fund should not come into force unless the ECB reverses its new programme. “The ESM – insofar as it is constitutionally viable at all – should only come into force when [...]

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Greece rounds up immigrants

Border police jeeps hurtle along hot, dusty tracks past potato fields on their way to the river that marks the Greek-Turkish border. Sirens blaring, the convoys have been repelling wave after wave of migrants. Greece’s remote Evros region has turned into Europe’s main battleground against illegal immigration. More than two-thirds of people making the clandestine journey [...]

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A look at the main party leaders in Greece’s national elections on Sunday

The U.S.-educated economist, whose party won an inconclusive victory on May 6, presents Sunday’s vote as a stark choice between staying in the euro and reverting to the country’s old drachma currency, which he claims will happen if his main left-wing opponents win. Opinion polls show Samaras‘ conservative party neck and neck with the Syriza [...]

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Agreement will allow ritual slaughter in the Netherlands

Dutch Agriculture Minister Hans Bleker signed an agreement with Jewish and Muslim religious leaders and slaughterhouses which will prevent a ban on ritual slaughter. Under the agreement signed Tuesday, animals can continue to be ritually slaughtered as long as they lose consciousness within 40 seconds of their throats being cut. After 40 seconds they must [...]

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‘Limited optimism’ after Greek talks

Greece‘s Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos says he feels “limited optimism” after talks led by President Carolos Papoulias on forging an emergency government to avert elections. Venizelos told party cadres that the talks on Sunday with conservative leader Antonis Samaras and radical leftist leader Alexis Tsipras came to a “dead end”, indicating that hopes now fall [...]

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Ukraine’s jailed former PM Yulia Tymoshenko moved to hospital

Ukraine‘s jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been moved to hospital to be treated for back pain. AFP explains that the 51-year-old’s condition prevented her from attending the opening of her new trial for tax fraud. She had previously refused to be treated at a Ukrainian hospital, unless it was approved by a team of [...]

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Why Hungary’s Youth Are Angry — and Drifting to the Far Right

In early January, after Hungary’s conservative government passed a controversial new constitution that opponents say jeopardizes the country’s standing in the European Union, tens of thousands of protesters flocked to the streets to vent their anger. “We’re offering a new kind of resistance,” opposition MP David Dorosz said. The lawmaker, like many in the country, [...]

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Putin seeks convincing win as Russians vote in election

Russia – Vladimir Putin sought a convincing victory in Russia’s presidential election on Sunday to strengthen his hand in dealing with the biggest opposition protests since he rose to power 12 years ago. Critics question the legitimacy of a vote they say is skewed to help the former KGB spy return to the Kremlin after [...]

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Eurozone finance ministers meet on Greece Thursday

A top eurozone official says that the currency bloc’s 17 finance ministers will meet in Brussels Thursday evening to discuss a second massive bailout for Greece. Jean-Claude Juncker, who heads the finance minister meetings and is also Luxembourg’s premier, says the officials will meet at 1700 GMT. Juncker called the meeting even though the leaders [...]

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Who’s afraid of the big bad ‘lone wolf’?

Terrorism is different to every other threat facing mankind, whether those threats are physical, natural or manmade. Why? Because the impact made by terrorism is determined in large part by our response to it. Terrorism involves a very subjective process of perception. How we visualise terrorism is shaped by a cultural narrative, by a cultural [...]

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