Francois Hollande has been sworn in as president of France, becoming the first Socialist leader in 17 years to occupy the Elysee Palace. – BBC News
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May 9, 2012 17:44
11 Quotes That Show How Worried The Financial World Is About Europe Right Now
When Europe descends into financial chaos, the United States is not going to escape it. The financial crisis of 2008 deeply affected the entire globe, and so will the next great financial crisis.
May 9, 2012 06:46
Farewell to ‘Europe’?
Needless to say, if Europe once again descends into the vortex of economic privation, religious and/or ethnic “cleansing” and possibly strife that has happened so often there, our own tranquility and prosperity will be jeopardized, as well.
April 23, 2012 09:01
European Splintering Escalates: Dutch Government Falls; Slovakia Government Collapsed in March; Czech Government Collapse Coming Right Up
Other than four ousted governments, Troika imposed governments in Greece and Italy, huge budget misses in Spain, increased protectionist measures in France, border controls, bickering between the ECB and the German Central Bank, the Bundesbank proclamation “Not ECB’s Job to Tackle Spain’s Problems”, Europe is holding together quite nicely.
March 2, 2012 06:25
The American Left’s European Nightmare
Social Democracy’s goal (to which much of Europe’s right also subscribes) was to use the state to realize as much economic security and equality as possible, without resorting to the outright collectivization pursued by the comrades in the East. In policy-terms, that meant extensive regulation, legal privileges for trade unions, “free” healthcare, subsidies and special breaks for politically-connected businesses, ever-growing social security programs, and legions of national and EU public sector workers to “manage” the regulatory-welfare state — all of which was presided over by an increasingly-inbred European political class (Europe’s real “1 percent”) with little-to-no experience of the private sector. – American Spectator
February 10, 2012 18:26
UK MEP Hannan Gives America a Warning at CPAC 2012
European Parliament member Daniel Hannan warns Americans not to follow the failed socialist policies of Europe. MEP Hannan spoke at a CPAC conference titled “The European Debt Implosion: Is America Next?” Hanna is the Secretary General of the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists. What you might call the EuroTeaParty.
February 1, 2012 05:09
Germany to take over Greek budget
To bail out Greece Germany is demanding veto power over Greece’s budget. Greece is the result of a socialist welfare state that is the model for the “redistributive” ideology of Barack Obama. Greece is where the US is headed if we continue to keep our heads in the sand about the consequences of a debt that is greater the our entire Gross Domestic Product.
January 27, 2012 06:11
Nazi Roots of Sustainable Development
Environmental planners just exchanged brown paint with red paint — all the while keeping the interior green. German spatial planners played an early critical role in the development of the EU’s sustainable development policies.
January 6, 2012 06:45
Mitt Romney, the Value-Added Tax, and America’s European Future
Mitt Romney’s openness to a value-added tax makes him a dangerously flawed candidate, and I hoped Iowa voters shared my concern.
January 4, 2012 08:21
Eurozone leaders warn that a recession is coming. Yup: and whose fault is that?
The reason that the eurozone faces such hard times is that its leaders have decided to keep the single currency together at any cost. The coming recession is not some inexorable force of nature; it is a consequence of the policies being pursued by Merkozy, Monti, Barroso and the rest. – The Telegraph
