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Trump as Nero Europe Must Defend Itself Against A Dangerous President The United States president is becoming a danger to the world. It is time for Germany and Europe to prepare their political and economic defenses. A DER SPIEGEL Editorial By Klaus Brinkbäumer AFP Is the United States turning its back on liberty? …
BRUSSELS — European leaders grappled with the jolting reality of President-elect Donald Trump’s skepticism of the European Union on Monday, saying they might have to stand without the United States at their side during the Trump presidency. The possibility of an unprecedented breach in transatlantic relations came after Trump — who embraced anti-E.U. insurgents during his…
France is asking bond investors to take the long view in what is expected to be a challenging year for the eurozone’s second-largest economy, as the country braces for a bruising presidential election. On Thursday, France will tap an existing 50-year bond that matures in 2066, in the latest sign that investors are still willing…
Members of the public in European states including France, Belgium, Germany and the UK greatly overestimate their country’s Muslim population and the rate at which it is growing. An Ipsos Mori survey that measured the gap between public perception and reality in 40 countries in 2016 found French respondents were by far the most likely…
For how long does Europe’s racist right need to “rise” before it is acknowledged that Europe is racist and this is not the by product of recent social discontent? Across Europe, the media narrative goes more or less like this: 9/11 happened and that brought out a wave of Islamophobia that was used by manipulative…
BRUSSELS/DUBLIN The European Commission ordered Apple Inc to pay Ireland unpaid taxes of up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) on Tuesday as it ruled the firm had received illegal state aid. Apple and Dublin said the U.S. company’s tax treatment was in line with Irish and European Union law and they would…
Ian Berry/Magnum PhotosNigel Farage canvassing for ‘Leave’ votes during the Brexit campaign, London, May 2016. He resigned as leader of the UK Independence Party on July 4, shortly after the referendum. Back in the old neighborhood in North West London after a long absence, I went past the local primary school and noticed a change….
Leading figures in the hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party are calling for a ‘Dexit’ – Deutschland out of the EU – vote in the wake of the Brexit victory in the UK. Branding Brussels a ‘bureaucracy monster’ the party which trounced Angela Merkel’s conservatives in vital regional polls in the spring, AfD heavyweights say…
Philip Hammond MP. Photo: Oli Scarff Note to Philip Hammond: In ALL 32 OECD countries that cut spending, economic growth was seriously damaged 14 Jul 2016, by Geoff Tily in Economics Since 2010, under the direction of international organisations and most economists, governments across the world have cut spending in order to restore public finances…
SUNDERLAND, England — In places like Sunderland, with its once-robust shipyards silent and dead and its citizens leery of both London and Brussels, the idea of the European Union never really took hold. Although the once-proud working-class city in England’s northeast heartland benefited from the bloc, the campaign that became known as “Brexit” found many adherents and…