The renowned American economist Paul Krugman expressed this Tuesday openly criticized the positions taken by central banks and questioned whether the inflation target set by the system is placed in 2%. The Nobel Prize winner in Economics found that these goals should be higher to promote economic recovery and warned of the risk of deflation […]
May 28 2014 | Posted in
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Presidential elections in Ukraine were “extraordinary quality” and give the new president “legitimacy to immediately enter into an inclusive dialogue with all citizens of the eastern regions in order to restore confidence.” So said Andreas Gross, head of the delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe yesterday on the report of the […]
May 28 2014 | Posted in
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The fighting between the armed forces and the pro-Russian Ukrainian militiamen around Donetsk International Airport, which began in the early hours of Monday and have continued for more than 24 hours, have claimed at least 40 people, most of them rebels confirmed the mayor, Alexander Lukyanchenko. Sources of the self-proclaimed Republic of Donetsk however reduced […]
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The European elections have devastated the French political landscape. The first victory in a national election National Front in its 52 year history has placed the socialist government and the conservative opposition in a situation of extreme weakness, and France in the black hole of a continent ravaged by the crisis and the inability of […]
May 27 2014 | Posted in
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The businessman Petro Poroshenko, 48, is the winner of the presidential elections in Ukraine, far ahead of other candidates. With 54.5% of the votes counted, obtained 53.7 % of the vote. Include the former Prime Minister, Yulia Timoshenko, in second place with 13.07%. It appears that, having neatly overcome the barrier of 50%, a runoff […]
May 27 2014 | Posted in
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“The European People’s Party is poised to win the elections. And, therefore, claimed the presidency of the European Commission.” Just received Sunday night in the first election results the European People’s Party candidate to chair the EU executive, the Luxembourg Jean -Claude Juncker. Conservative could wait until the final results are to appear, but also […]
May 27 2014 | Posted in
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The consequences of triple anti-Semitic attack in Brussels worsen. The 25 year old man who was seriously injured in the shooting is clinically dead, confirmed Sunday sources close to the investigation. The young man, who worked at the Jewish Museum in Brussels for several months, was the fourth person shot on Saturday inside the building, […]
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The Belgian political scene has taken a new twist that could lead to another crisis of governance. The Flemish nationalist party N -VA Sunday proclaimed winner of the federal elections, with a comfortable margin, and aspires to lead a coalition government in the country. With about 95 % of polling stations tallied, the Flemish regionalist […]
May 27 2014 | Posted in
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It is difficult to find other elections in which there has been only one winner. The success of the Populist UK Independence Party (UKIP) has left roughly handled the three major British parties to the extent that it is not easy to know which of them has done worse. Conservatives have been third in national […]
May 27 2014 | Posted in
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Early Monday morning, dozens of pro-Russian militia armed with assault rifles have broken into the Sergei Prokofiev Donetsk, the capital of the People’s Republic eponymous self-declared International Airport. The aerodrome has been evacuated and closed and all flights canceled to ensure safety, said spokesman same Dmitro Kosinov. “There are armed men inside the enclosure, plenty […]
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Initial estimates of the Central Electoral Commission in the two rebel regions of eastern Ukraine on the number of voters who could be deprived of exercising their right in the presidential elections in Donetsk and Lugansk – two million – may fall short to judge by the and bolted closure of polling stations, many guarded […]
May 26 2014 | Posted in
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Miriam and Emmanuel Riva, two Israeli in his 50s living in Tel Aviv, are two of the four people killed on Saturday afternoon shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels. The third victim is a French national who worked at the center. The Israeli Foreign Ministry has confirmed this morning in a brief statement that […]
May 26 2014 | Posted in
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