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Draghi turns on the QE tap

Mario Draghi has fulfilled his promise and put into action the words “whatever it takes” – which he declared at the height of the debt crisis in July 2012 – to save the euro. After the first ECB Governing Council meeting of the year, its president announced the implementation of the much-anticipated Quantitative Easing (QE), a statement that has not only fulfilled but exceeded the markets’ expectations. The Italian banker has led the ECB into unknown territory with a massive sovereign bond-buying plan that will be added to the existing private sector asset purchase program, amounting to a total of €1.14 trillion. The goal is to quell the threat of deflation, and to reactivate economic growth, which remains stagnant in the euro area.

Cara Delevingne, chords and rouge

She did it again. Cara Delevingne has amazed us once again at the Yves Saint Laurent Loves Your Lips party, where the British model combined two of her passions: music and fashion. Cara wore that spectacular rouge by Yves Saint Laurent, a firm for whom she’s already worked for in the past. And Cara delighted…

The new euro governance

Hitherto, the European Central Bank (ECB) always held its meetings on monetary policy on the first Thursday of every month, followed by a press conference with its president, Mario Draghi. Starting this year, this decision-making frequency will be reduced, and the communications will be more transparent. The Governing Council’s first meeting of 2015 – which could result in the largest stimulus for the euro area of all time– will be held on 22 January, and not on 8 January, which was the custom. 2015 is also a year of enlargement: with Lithuania joining the euro area as its 19th member state.

In Europe, a feeble rise in employment

The European Commission published a report on employment and social developments in Europe, on 15 January, where it is noted that more than nine million more are unemployed compared with 2008. The unemployment rate in the 28 EU member states reached 10.0% in November 2014, down from 10.7% in November 2013. Youth unemployment reached 21.9% in the EU and 23.7% in the euro area, compared with 23.2% and 23.9% respectively in November 2013. Unemployed young people under 25 are now 5.1 million in the EU, compared with 3.4 million in the Eurozone.

Happy birthday Calvin!

Calvin Harris is one of the sexiest DJ nowadays, but don’t let that baby face fool you, because Calvin is turning 31 years old! The Scottish DJ is living his best professional moment: he’s launched his new single, he’s been nominated to Best Song and Best Videoclip for the Brit Awards 2015 and he’s become…

Europe’s immigrants: wanted or unwanted?

Europe is a continent of migrants. Millions of EU citizens move freely between member states every year, thus contributing to GDP growth. An additional 11% of the total EU population of 500 millions are immigrants coming from outside the EU. Most of foreign immigrants cross the borders into Europe as asylum seekers.

David Beckham, a great daddy

David, David… ¡You have it all!

Ciao Anita Ekberg

Swedish actress Anita Ekberg says her final goodbye at age 83 at the San Raffaele di Rocca di Papa clinic, in Castelli Romani, near Rome, where she had been living over the last years. Anita leaves us with unforgettable images and her iconic “Marcello, come here” from La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini. We say…

“Je suis Charlie” rally in Brussels

The capital of the EU is also the world capital of the bande dessinée, and suffered its own terrorist attack in May 2014 with the killing of four persons at the Brussels Jewish Museum.

Défendre la liberté d’expression en France pour un projet commun de société

Dialogue , Op-ed , EU
10 January, 2015

The author of this article is a Muslim woman in her mid 40s, of Algerian nationality but resident in France since her youth, who prefers her identity not to be disclosed.

La radicalisation religieuse est un refuge idéologique pour les terroristes qui ne fait que masquer le déséquilibre psychologique de ces personnes et l’échec de leur intégration sociale. Voilà ce que ces terroristes combattent réellement, un ordre social où ils n’ont pas pu trouver leur place. C’est un problème social et non un problème religieux.