Europe Archives

Red Brigades, Italy’s Communist Terrorist Group, Threatens Officials

Italy’s notorious communist terrorist group the Red Brigades has sent a string a letters with bullets threatening various public officials in Italy, according...

Christian Gomez January 24, 2011

Irish Central Bank Prints Euros to Pay Bonuses

Bruce Walker January 20, 2011

The financial crisis which has been pulling eurozone nations such as Greece and Portugal into a downward spiral of high interest rates on...

Some Romanians Pine for “Good Old Days” of Communism

Bruce Walker January 19, 2011

Six years ago the Romanian Institute for Marketing and Polling reported that 64% of the people felt that their nation was moving in...

WikiLeaks to Release Banking Information

Thomas R. Eddlem January 18, 2011

Internet whistleblower website WikiLeaks plans to release information on tax evasion by the rich and famous after obtaining two disks of information from...

Swiss Govt Angered Over Illegal Surveillance by U.S. Embassy

Kelly Holt January 17, 2011

On Jan. 16, the news syndicate Breitbart reported that the U.S. embassy in Geneva has been conducting illegal surveillance on Swiss territory. In...

Eurozone Avoids Meltdown — For Now

Charles Scaliger January 17, 2011

In defiance of all logic, the eurozone weathered a week of harrowing instability this past week, with Portugal, Spain, and Italy managing to...

EU Officials Want Larger Bailout Fund

Raven Clabough January 12, 2011

Even as the European Union is bankrupting itself with bailouts, the EU’s top Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said on Wednesday that the...

EU Reinstates Travel Ban against Belarusian Dictator

January 12, 2011

The European Union announced today that they would be reinstating a travel ban against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and 40 of his close...

Financial World Eyes Portugal

Charles Scaliger January 12, 2011

The outlook for the sale today of three- and nine-year bonds by the government of Portugal is still cloudy, but late-breaking news that...

European Dis-Union

January 12, 2011

In a November 16, 2010 speech, European Union President Herman Van Rompuy warned that the eurozone economic crisis threatened the very existence of...

If You Don’t Pay This Tax, We’ll Shoot Your Dog

Michael Tennant January 11, 2011

German sociologist and political economist Max Weber once defined a state as an institution that “successfully upholds a claim on the monopoly of...

The Ongoing Portuguese Debt Crisis

January 10, 2011

New year, new crisis. For the beleaguered, once-independent nations of Europe now entangled in the eurozone, the economic drama unfolding in Portugal this...