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ECONOMY: Don't Bank On Them

ECONOMY: BRUSSELS, Nov 18 (IPS) - Public confidence in Belgian banks has eroded considerably over the past few months. A series of multi-billion euro rescue plans, reports of lavish executive bonuses and investigations into whether ...

From DAVID CRONIN, Inter Press Service,  18 Nov 2008

David Cronin: The EIB must cease to be a law unto itself

Located in small and sleepy Luxembourg, the European Investment Bank is not in the habit of grabbing headlines. So perhaps it's a measure of how desperate politicians are that they are portraying the EIB's lolly as vital for economic resuscitation. ...

From DAVID CRONIN, Comment Is Free - Guardian Unlimited,  18 Nov 2008

EU-RUSSIA: Arms Overshadow Talks

EU-RUSSIA: Analysis by David Cronin BRUSSELS, Nov 15 (IPS) - Brinkmanship over weapons overshadowed a summit between the European Union and Russia held in the French city Nice Nov. 14. Although the EU had agreed earlier in the week to ...

From DAVID CRONIN, Inter Press Service,  15 Nov 2008

RIGHTS-EUROPE: New Fascism Hunts Roma

RIGHTS-EUROPE: BRUSSELS, Nov 13 (IPS) - A political ideology based on the desire to exterminate Roma gypsies is emerging in parts of Europe, a Brussels conference has been told. Following a number of violent attacks on Roma by skinheads ...

From DAVID CRONIN, Inter Press Service,  13 Nov 2008

HEALTH: Europe Ignoring TB Research

HEALTH: BRUSSELS, Nov 13 (IPS) - Funding from the European Union's Brussels headquarters for research into tuberculosis stands at about a fifth of what it should be given the EU's enormous wealth, a new study has found. With TB killing 1.7 ...

From DAVID CRONIN, Inter Press Service,  13 Nov 2008

EUROPE: New Push to Send Troops to Congo

EUROPE: BRUSSELS, Nov 6 (IPS) - Troops from the European Union should be deployed in eastern Congo in order to protect civilians, human rights activists say. Fighting between the Congolese army and forces controlled by Laurent Nkunda is to ...

From DAVID CRONIN, Inter Press Service,  6 Nov 2008

POLITICS-US: Europe Too Looks for a New Way Forward

POLITICS-US: BRUSSELS, Nov 5 (IPS) - If 'change' and 'hope' were the watchwords of Barack Obama's election campaign, they were echoed strongly on the other side of the Atlantic, where his victory was swiftly applauded by Europe's political ...

From DAVID CRONIN, Inter Press Service,  5 Nov 2008

David Cronin: All talk and no pantaloons

David Cronin: Nicolas Sarkozy claims capitalism has turned "crazy", but he has yet to come up with real plans for something ...

From DAVID CRONIN, Guardian Unlimited,  4 Nov 2008

David Cronin: Bush's envoys to the European Union have done little to endear themselves. Some new thinking from the next president will be welcomed

David Cronin: Bush's envoys to the European Union have done little to endear themselves. Some new thinking from the next president will be ...

From DAVID CRONIN, Guardian Unlimited,  31 Oct 2008

Europe Turning Away Migrants at Gunpoint

BRUSSELS, Oct 23 -- Weapons were pointed directly at migrants trying to enter Italy during a recent operation coordinated by the European Union's border control agency, it has been alleged. In late September the French naval vessel Arago was taking ...

From DAVID CRONIN, AlterNet.org,  30 Oct 2008

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