Europe

Group of 20 Balks, Stalls and Dithers

The Group of 20 meeting in Mexico City over the weekend decided that the best course of action was inaction, putting off making...

Bob Adelmann February 27, 2012

British Discover Raising Tax Rates Lowers Revenue

Bruce Walker February 23, 2012

The British government has tried to raise tax revenues by raising tax rates on the highest income Britons. The January 2012 self-assessed tax...

Big Brother Returns to Orwell’s England

Raven Clabough February 21, 2012

It seems the U.S. government is not the only one sporting a Big Brother demeanor. The British government is now revisiting previously considered...

The Greek Deal Saves the Banks

Bob Adelmann February 21, 2012

Following a 13-hour marathon session on Monday, eurozone ministers announced an agreement to loan Greece another $170 billion, which saves the banks while...

EU Funding of Homosexual Lobby with Pedophile Links Questioned

Alex Newman February 21, 2012

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have started to ask questions about why taxpayers in the European Union (EU) are being forced to...

Plans Revealed for Greek Default on March 23

Bob Adelmann February 21, 2012

Writer Bruno Waterfield’s claim that Germany has drawn up plans to deal with the inevitable Greek default was published in the British newspaper...

Homeschool Leader Flees Swedish Persecution

Alex Newman February 17, 2012

As the government intensifies its persecution of homeschoolers in Sweden, the president of the Swedish Association for Home Education (ROHUS) has finally been...

Eurozone Recession Accelerates; Moody’s Piles On

Bob Adelmann February 16, 2012

Economists polled by Reuters predicted that the recession in Europe that began late last year would continue into the new year and they weren’t disappointed....

Anarchy Draws Near as Greece Flirts With Default

Charles Scaliger February 14, 2012

The debt chickens are coming home to roost in Greece, and the hen house is collapsing. As the hard-pressed Greek parliament convened to...

Greece Burns as Police Threaten to Arrest EU & IMF Leaders

Alex Newman February 14, 2012

Following the approval of fresh austerity measures in Greece demanded by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund to qualify for the...

Members of European Parliament Preach Austerity, Practice Luxury

William F. Jasper February 6, 2012

Marta Andreasen (left), the courageous former chief accountant of the European Union, will not give up. In 2002 she was fired for refusing...

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Leader Calls for Trillion-dollar “Firewall”

William F. Jasper February 2, 2012

“We need a larger firewall.” So declared Christine Lagarde (left), Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) during a speech in Berlin on January...

European Fiscal Pact: Int’l. Financial Dictatorship

Bob Adelmann January 31, 2012

Monday’s meeting of the European Union in Brussels resulted in agreement of 25 of the 27 member states to inflict upon themselves and...

Greeks About to Learn the True Cost of Obtaining Bailouts

Bob Adelmann January 30, 2012

Greece’s Finance Minister, Evangelos Venizelos, rejected the German idea of imposing a eurozone “overseer” as part of the agreement to keep bailout funds...