http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/europe/ en-us Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:52:52 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3032448/posts The United States and Europe will not be able to significantly cut their debts in the next three years, a large majority of investors believe, according to a poll published on Monday. Almost 90 percent of investors did not see European governments making significant progress in reducing their debts by 2016, the poll found. Similarly, more than two thirds doubted President Obama's administration could make a big difference to debt levels in the next three years. Most of the investors saw no end to austerity in Europe and said governments were most likely to use spending cuts to address their... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3032448/posts#comment Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:52:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3027191/posts This is a critical time in American history. I think we all know that something big is happening in America. The steady stream of news out of Washington the past couple weeks is just a fresh reminder of this. We are learning more about how far our Department of Justice went in digging through the phone records of members of the press. We are also learning about how our own government targeted conservative groups by delaying or denying their tax-exempt status. And we are all waiting for the other shoe to drop on Obamacare -- the rate increases, the religious... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3027191/posts#comment Tue, 4 Jun 2013 17:29:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3027040/posts The potential for social unrest in European Union countries is higher than anywhere else in the world and the already yawning gaps between rich and poor, a major trigger, are likely to widen globally, the International Labour Organisation said on Monday. Those most vulnerable, the report said, were Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain. However the risk of social unrest had declined in Belgium, Germany, Finland, Slovakia and Sweden since 2010. Overall, the risk of unrest in the EU "is likely to be due to the policy responses to the ongoing sovereign debt crisis and their impact... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3027040/posts#comment Tue, 4 Jun 2013 11:48:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3026623/posts AFP - Al-Qaeda's military chief in Yemen warned Americans in an audio message posted online Sunday that the Boston bombings revealed a fragile security as he urged Muslims to defend their religion. France 24 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3026623/posts#comment Mon, 3 Jun 2013 09:47:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3026616/posts Note: Photo included with article. SNIPPET: "U.S. authorities have transferred Younis al-Mauritani, held in Afghanistan, to Mauritania, officials in the West African nation said on Saturday. Pakistan said in September 2011 it arrested al-Mauritani, better known in his homeland Mauritania as Youssouf Al Mauritani, during a joint operation with U.S. intelligence services." SNIPPET: "Pakistani military authorities said Al Mauritani was planning to attack U.S. economic interests including pipelines, hydro-electric dams and oil tankers when he was captured." WORLD BULLETIN.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3026616/posts#comment Mon, 3 Jun 2013 08:55:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3026485/posts Poland has embarked on one of the biggest defence spending increases of any Nato member. The programme was launched by Bronislaw Komorowski, the president, in a signing ceremony that symbolically took place not far from the Belarus border. “Poland will be more secure and more credible as an ally and a key country in our part of Europe, able to defend its own territory and able to help others,” Mr Komorowski said during the ceremony in April. At a time when most Nato military budgets are under severe strain because of the economic crisis, Poland is undertaking a thorough modernisation... Financial Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3026485/posts#comment Sun, 2 Jun 2013 21:43:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3026484/posts A brigade of Dutch paratroopers will be integrated into a new German division of rapid reaction forces, German newspaper Rheinische Post reported on May 22. The 11th Airmobile Brigade—a mobile force of 4,500 troops that is equipped with light vehicles, mortars and anti-aircraft systems—will join 8,600 German soldiers to form the new division under German command. With paratroopers and special forces, as well as combat and transport helicopters, the group is designed to respond quickly to new threats and help evacuate endangered German and Dutch citizens. Until now, only Britain and America had a similar type of military structure. The... Philadelphia Trumpet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3026484/posts#comment Sun, 2 Jun 2013 21:35:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3026471/posts “Man must sacrifice his life”– interview with Dominique VennerGötz Kubitschek On May 21, 2013 Dominique Venner , a French historian, shot himself in the Notre Dame Cathedral of Paris to protest against the introduction of gay marriage in France. Only a week before that, Secession magazine interviewed Venner scheduled for the August issue. The occasion was Venner's new book: Le Choc de l'Histoire - The shock of the History. During the conversation Venner suggested that our time was ripe for symbolic actions and personal sacrifice. Questions by Benedict Kaiser. SECESSION: Le Choc de l'Histoire treats questions that you have investigated... Sezession im Netz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3026471/posts#comment Sun, 2 Jun 2013 20:04:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3026411/posts Ready To Be “CYPRUSED” At A Bank Near You Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2013 02, 2013 - 04:42 PM GMT By: Christopher Quigley The banking situation in Europe continues to deteriorate rapidly. As a measure of the ongoing crisis the “ Bail In” option used in Cyprus is actually being made European Commission policy. The following is a recent report from the much respected Irish Times: “Proposals under Irish presidency to deal with European bank collapses likely to ‘bail-in’ large depositors. Deposits of over €100,000 are likely to be hit in the event of future European bank collapses, according... The Market Oracle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3026411/posts#comment Sun, 2 Jun 2013 16:03:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3026238/posts German police used pepper spray and batons against thousands of anti-capitalist demonstrators from the Blockupy movement on Saturday during a second day of protests in Frankfurt against Europe's austerity policies. Planned rallies in struggling euro zone members Spain and Portugal drew fewer people than expected, but in Germany's financial capital around 7,000 protesters marched with signs reading "Make love, not war" and "IMF - get out of Greece". Protests against the "troika" of international lenders that has bailed out struggling euro zone states - the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the European Union - were planned... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3026238/posts#comment Sat, 1 Jun 2013 22:17:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3025752/posts Unemployment has reached a new high in the euro zone and inflation remains well below the European Central Bank's target, underscoring just how severe a challenge EU leaders face to revive the bloc's sickly economy. Joblessness in the 17-nation currency area rose to 12.2 percent in April, statistics agency Eurostat said on Friday, marking a new record since the data series began in 1995. With the euro zone also in its longest recession since its creation in 1999, consumer price inflation was far below the ECB's target of just below 2 percent, coming in at 1.4 percent in May, slightly... Reuters.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3025752/posts#comment Fri, 31 May 2013 12:17:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3025571/posts Britain is being taken to court by the European commission over allegations that nationals from EU countries are unfairly denied welfare benefits. The commission argues that Britain imposes an extra test on migrants from the EU that does not apply to British citizens, in contravention of EU law. Britain applies its own test on top of the standard EU test to determine if a migrant is eligible for welfare payments. The commission believes that, as a result, thousands of migrants may have been denied access to benefits, such as child tax credit and jobseeker's allowance. SNIP But the official said... TheGuardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3025571/posts#comment Thu, 30 May 2013 22:52:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3024897/posts According to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), mortgage applications fell again last week. The applications fell 8.8%. Mortgage refinancing applications fell by a whopping 12.30% while mortgage purchase applications rose by 2.58%. Here is the Bankrate 30 year fixed-rate average (yellow) and refinance applications (white) since May 2nd. And here are the mortgage purchase applications (white) against the Bankrate 30 year fixed-rate average (red). But here is a longer term view of mortgage purchase applications. Back to 1997 when the housing bubble started to form. So, mortgage purchase applications can’t be explaining the dramatic rise in house prices in the... Confounded Interest http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3024897/posts#comment Wed, 29 May 2013 11:52:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3024784/posts SNIPPET - quote: www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl1955.aspx Treasury Announces New Sanctions Against Iran Actions Target Iran’s Nuclear and Missile Proliferation Activities 5/23/2013     WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury is taking action today against 20 individuals and entities for their involvement in Iran’s nuclear and missile proliferation networks and Iran’s continued attempts to circumvent sanctions. These networks are responsible for moving supplies and providing essential services to Iran’s clandestine nuclear and weapons programs. These actions are designed to increase pressure on the Iranian regime by tightening sanctions against Iran’s energy sector and exposing key proliferation related networks that span the... TREASURY.gov - U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3024784/posts#comment Wed, 29 May 2013 00:16:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3024583/posts Escalations continued on all sides in Syria’s civil war except, curiously, among the Syrians.  The EU decided not to renew the embargo on arms sales to Syrian rebels, which prompted the Russians to pledge delivery of anti-aircraft missiles, which prompted Israel to implicitly warn that they would make great targets for their air force.  In the middle of all this, John McCain got a photo op with a Syrian opposition that’s being dominated by radical Islamist militias, including an al-Qaeda affiliate that forms the core of their military operations.In other words, it’s a mess, but let’s start with the embargo’s... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3024583/posts#comment Tue, 28 May 2013 14:59:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022754/posts She denies she was close to the Communist rulers in East Germany, where she grew up. So this 1972 photo of her in military-style uniform has left German Chancellor Angela Merkel ‘not amused’. Then called Angela Kasner and aged 17, she is shown happily involved in a civil defence exercise under the gaze of an East German officer. Snip Sonja Felssberg, now 58 and an old school comrade, found the photo and handed it to a national German newspaper. Mrs Merkel will hope the row doesn't undermine her bid for a third term in office Mrs Merkel will hope the... http://www.dailymail.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022754/posts#comment Thu, 23 May 2013 00:12:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022363/posts MOSCOW – A delegation of American lawmakers will travel to Russia next week in part to investigate last month’s Boston Marathon bombings, ABC News has learned. The group, led by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., wants to find out why a 2011 Russian request that the United States investigate Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the suspected Boston bombers, did not raise more red flags. The Russians offered a vague warning that Tsarnaev planned to link up with extremist groups abroad, but an FBI investigation yielded no evidence to support those claims at the time. The lawmakers also want to know why subsequent... ABC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022363/posts#comment Wed, 22 May 2013 04:51:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3021836/posts The media blame Golden Dawn for being racist, but they don't say that the situation in Greece is beyond tolerability. 90% of illegal immigrants to Europe go through Greece, the gateway to our continent. One million immigrants are reported to be in Greece, half of whom illegal. Ordinary, non-racist Greeks, whose life have become unbearable due to the very high level of immigrants' crime wich makes them scared of going out at night, vote for Golden Dawn because the party is the only one that tackles the problem and helps. A Golden Dawn voter is the florist in the... Enza Ferreri Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3021836/posts#comment Tue, 21 May 2013 00:04:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021826/posts A new analysis of the 2011 census shows that a decade of mass immigration helped mask the scale of decline in Christian affiliation among the British-born population – while driving a dramatic increase in Islam, particularly among the young. It suggests that only a minority of people will describe themselves as Christians within the next decade, for first time. Meanwhile almost one in 10 under 25s in Britain is now a Muslim. The proportion of young people who describe themselves as even nominal Christians has dropped below half for the first time. Initial results from the 2011 census published last... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021826/posts#comment Mon, 20 May 2013 23:21:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021126/posts http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3834.htm MEMRI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021126/posts#comment Sat, 18 May 2013 21:58:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3020904/posts The 2011 census puts the Muslim population of the UK at around 5 per cent, a total that has been boosted by around 600,000 Muslim immigrants who have arrived in the UK over the past decade. Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society, said to UK daily the Telegraph that the decline of Christianity is “inevitable.” “In another 20 years there are going to be more active Muslims than there are churchgoers,” he said. Albany Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3020904/posts#comment Sat, 18 May 2013 04:25:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020677/posts NEW DELHI: India is likely to oppose the reported European Union threat to impose fines on Air India and Jet Airways for not accepting EU's emissions trading scheme (EU-ETS) and not reporting their emissions over European skies, officials said today. Only these two Indian carriers, which fly to Europe, are likely to be slapped a total fine of around Euros 30,000, while eight Chinese carriers could face fines totalling Euros 2.4 million euros, they said. Refusing to be cowed down to the EU threat, the officials, requesting anonymity, said the two Indian carriers operate a total of about 5-6 flights... PTI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020677/posts#comment Fri, 17 May 2013 16:03:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019869/posts How The Bubonic Plague Actually Saved Europe In The 14th Century Sam Ro May 15, 2013, 1:31 PM Studying the history of financial crises can be quite enlightening. Deutsche Bank's Peter Hooper just published an interesting report considering crises going back to the Middle Ages. Referring to the work of Juesus Huerta de Soto, Geld, Bankkredit und Konjunkturzyklen, and Stuttgart, Hooper summarizes what happened during the European credit crisis of the 14th century. What's interesting is how the country got out of the crisis. From Hooper's note (emphasis added): In the early 14th century banks in Florence engaged in a... TBI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019869/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 18:28:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019692/posts France Double-Dips As European Recession Is Now Longest On Record Tyler Durden 05/15/2013 07:42 -0400 Confirming that in a world in which either commercial or central banks have to be constantly be churning out debt, and in a world in which Europe is doing neither (with European commercial loan growth posting sequential declines across the board, and the ECB's balance sheet still declining although likely not for long), "growth" as defined by conventional standards, is impossible, we got today's European Q1 GDP data. Not only was it bad, but it was even worse than most had expected. And while Germany... Zero Hedge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019692/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 12:42:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018958/posts The Mail On Sunday today exposes the massive international security risk posed by a gun that can be easily made with new 3D printers. We built the weapon, which is capable of firing a live round, from blueprints available on the internet – then smuggled it on to a packed Eurostar train. Two reporters passed completely unchallenged through strict airport-style security to carry the gun on to a London to Paris service in the weekend rush-hour, alongside hundreds of unsuspecting travellers. The pistol, capable of firing a deadly 0.38-calibre bullet, was produced in under 36 hours using a revolutionary £1,700... The London Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018958/posts#comment Mon, 13 May 2013 22:35:27 GMT