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  • On the simplified European treaty - Pour un nouveau referendum (video)
    24 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Révolte au Parlement de l'UE - INCROYABLE
    Dear European friends, et chers amis français de l’étranger,
    I’m really sorry of French speaking only to the following words... but I cannot use other language assuring that there will not be misunderstanding. The subject is of The simplified European treaty from a country that had voted No.
    C’est au sujet de la ratification du traité européen contre la majorité des suffrages exprimés lors du premier référendum que je vous écris (…)

  • Biggest Swiss Bank UBS May Be Split Up, Face More Writedowns
    14 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Biggest Swiss Bank UBS May Be Split Up, Face More Writedowns
    By Carey Sargent
    Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) — UBS AG, Europe’s biggest bank by assets, may split its investment banking and money management operations into two separately traded companies, SonntagsZeitung reported, without saying where it got the information.
    The bank, based in Zurich, may also take another $5 billion to $8 billion in writedowns following the collapse of the U.S. subprime mortgage market, the newspaper said. UBS on (…)

  • European Central Bank pumps $500 bn into banking system
    30 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    TO SUCCEED over the global credit crunch in aftermath of sub-prime crisis, the European Central Bank (ECB) has announced to grant a record double loan to its banks. The ECB has decided to pump 348.6 billion euros ($501.5 billion) into the banking system through its banks. Though lending to banks at 4.21% rate of interest is available only for two weeks, it is expected that the grant will boost the diminishing confidence of the bank.
    Ravi Kant 19 December 2007, Wednesday
    The sub-prime (…)

  • Berlin Commune Fights the Property Developers
    26 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Köpi in Berlin is famous as one of the last remaining remnants of the city’s squat culture from the early 1990s. The building, which is in a desirable location, has now been sold to a property developer — but the residents aren’t giving up without a fight.
    By Stefan Berg and Marcel Rosenbach December 21, 2007, 06:22 PM DER SPIEGEL
    The Köpi in Berlin’s Mitte district is a symbol of the city’s far-left scene.
    They sat down together just like every week, but this time the mood was (…)

  • GEORGES GALLOWAY: On The Brink Of KOSOVO Bloodbath
    17 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Global Research, December 14, 2007
    Kosovo: We’re On The Brink Of A Balkans Bloodbath
    by George Galloway, MP
    WHILE most were asleep, we’ve walked to the brink of yet another war in the Balkans.
    Kosovo is a part of Serbia. That’s a legal and political fact. It wants to break away and appears to have secured British and American agreement, but not, alas, the agreement of either Serbia, whose land it is, or Russia, which will veto any breakaway in the UN. The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) (…)

  • Germany Seeks to Ban Scientology
    8 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Germany Seeks to Ban Scientology
    Friday December 7, 2007 12:01 PM
    BERLIN (AP) - Germany’s top security officials said Friday they consider the goals of the U.S.-based Church of Scientology to be in conflict with the principles of the nation’s constitution and will seek to ban the group.
    The interior ministers of the nation’s 16 states as well as federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble ``consider Scientology to be an organization that is not compatible with the constitution,’’ (…)

  • Germany’s Greens Turn Left, Avoiding Radical Motions
    27 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Germany’s Greens Turn Left, Avoiding Radical Motions
    25.11.2007 Germany’s Greens voted in favor of extending social benefits but rejected a proposal that would guarantee a basic income to everyone at a key party congress that ended in the city of Nuremberg on Sunday, Nov. 25.
    The party, in opposition since the September 2005 elections, backtracked from the market reform policies introduced under the last government, when it was the junior partner in Social Democrat (SPD) Chancellor (…)

  • Europe Suspends Mortgage Bond Trading Between Banks
    22 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Europe Suspends Mortgage Bond Trading Between Banks
    By Esteban Duarte and Steve Rothwell
    Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) — European banks agreed to suspend trading in the $2.8 trillion market for mortgage debt known as covered bonds to halt a slump that has closed the region’s main source of financing for home lenders.
    The European Covered Bond Council, an industry group that represents securities firms and borrowers, recommended banks withdraw from trades for the first time in its three-year (…)

  • Swiss Re Has $1.07 Billion Credit-Default Swaps Loss
    19 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Swiss Re Has $1.07 Billion Credit-Default Swaps Loss
    By Warren Giles
    Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) — Swiss Reinsurance Co., the world’s biggest reinsurer, lost 1.2 billion-Swiss francs ($1.07 billion) on derivatives in October after the U.S. subprime mortgage crash roiled debt markets.
    Swiss Re fell the most in more than 4 1/2 years in Zurich trading after the loss, which amounts to 981 million francs after tax. Losses occurred on two credit-default swaps Swiss Re sold to protect clients (…)

  • Analysis: EU force may reach Chad in Jan.
    17 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published: Nov. 16, 2007 at 10:37 AM By LEANDER SCHAERLAECKENS UPI Correspondent
    BRUSSELS, Nov. 16 (UPI) — EU security forces are gearing up to assist NATO and African Union troops in securing refugee camps in eastern Chad and the Central African Republic that are home to millions fleeing the violence in Darfur.
    The area, which borders Sudan’s Darfur region, has been inundated with refugees. The United Nations estimates that at least 2 million people have been displaced and driven into (…)