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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…
Less than one month to go… Running the San Silvestre from the centre of Madrid to the popular Barrio de Vallecas on 31 December is probably the healthiest way to prepare for the excesses of the night. Thousands of people gather every year for this 10 km marathon in which the least important is who gets…
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
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