How to turn 21 billion euros into 315 billion euros. This is essentially the goal of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), the master plan which led Jean Claude Juncker to the presidency of the European Commission. The plan aims to reactivate the ailing economy of the region, and create 3.3 million jobs by 2017.
Users of Google can fill out a form and request the delisting of their information, which is reviewed on a case-by-case basis. Since launching its webform for the right to be forgotten requests in May, Google has reported that 174,266 requests have been filed for 602,479 links
Clashes between 6,000 protesters and riot police erupted in the evening as teargas and water cannon were used to beat back protesters in the Exarchia neighbourhood, where about 200 anarchists hurled stones and molotov cocktails.
The silver bullet is loaded but he is not firing it. Mario Draghi takes aim, pledges and gives signs but doesn’t take action. The President of the European Central Bank (ECB) has disappointed markets with an unusually less aggressive speech. It may have been due to the fact that it was his first press conference…
Edward Snowden was awarded the Right Livelihood award by the Swedish parliament. The American exile in Russia received what is considered to be the alternative Nobel prize for his revelations of the scale of state surveillance.
David Cameron has alluded to the possibility of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union unless European partners allow him to restrict benefits for immigrants. The figures released yesterday reveal a 43% rise in net immigration into the UK, which has threatened Cameron’s promise to cut it down before the end of his term in office…
Opec has lost its influence on oil prices. The US has become one of the main producers and actors in a market of 3.4 billion dollars thanks to the boom in fracking. As a result, Opec is starting to embrace the idea that the balance of forces has changed, and that it no longer has exclusive control…
It’s been 26 years since the European Parliament had a papal visit. Pope Francis addressed the Parliament at Strasbourg, and his speech was far from a diplomatic eulogy of the European Union. It was a direct attack on the European elites and their bureaucracy, which cannot seem to find the way to address the problems of unemployment, recession and migration that plague the continent.
The deal made by the European leaders to cap the greenhouse gas emissions was criticised as soon as it was announced. Hailed in the media as a historic agreement, it was intended to put pressure on the world’s biggest polluters
The Ukrainian parliamentary elections on 26 October confirmed the country’s pro-European orientation by choosing representatives from the social forces that were
