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Francois Hollande Set to Become France’s First Socialist President in Decades
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France has long been associated with leftist politics, but with the potential of Francois Hollande, Socialist candidate for President of France, winning the election against Nicolas Sarkozy never before have the prospects of a French return to leftist policies held so much consequence for the rest of continent. Marxism and the French Left: Studies on […]
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Study Finds 40% of British National Party Supporters ‘Willing to Prepare for Armed Conflict’
“From Voting to Violence? Rightwing Extremists in Modern Britain,” a study by Matthew Goodwin of the University of Nottingham and Jocelyn Evans of Salford University questioned over 2,000 voters for ‘radical right’ and ‘far-right’ political groups and found that most endorsed violence and were willing to prepare for such events. The study’s findings provide a […]
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Spanish Youth Unemployment Reaches Fifty-One Percent
Over half of all youth in Spain are unemployed, raising anew concerns that Spain’s economic woes may lead to a ‘lost generation.’ Unemployed youth in Spain hit 51.4% in December 2011, double the European Union average while the national unemployment rate was at 22.85%, its highest level in 17 years and according the The Telegraph, […]
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The Children Left Behind by the Greek Economic Crisis.
The nation of Greece is alarmed by increasingly common stories of families abandoning their children due to poverty that stems from the economic crisis gripping the Mediterranean state. The Greek economic crisis is putting an increasingly burdensome economic strain on low-income families. The Gasparinatos family put their children up for adoption after their lives had […]
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French Embassy Staff Leave Iran.
Germany, Italy and Netherlands also withdraw diplomatic staff from their stations. After the attack on the British embassy in Tehran, France is withdrawing some of its staff as a temporary security measure. Britain has expelled all of Iran’s diplomats from its country in response to the attack on the British embassy that is believed to […]
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Denmark Begins Bold Renewable Energy Transition.
The Danish government has set a bold goal for its energy sector – to have all of its domestic energy supplied by renewable sources by the year 2050. These goals are expected to transfer over to Denmark’s six-month presidency of the European Union during which it is planning on pushing renewable energy goals for the […]
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Euro Bonds Are Rejected by Germany as a Solution to the Euro Zone Financial Crisis.
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has repeated her nation’s rejection of a common euro bond market as a solution to the financial crisis gripping the euro zone following a failed bond auction on the part of Germany to raise money for the joint effort to save the common market currency. The German focus has remained on […]
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Is Germany Approaching Superpower Status?
Simon Winder of the United Kingdom’s The Telegraph argues that the recent events in the euro zone and the threat of imminent collapse without German intervention has placed the country in the position as an emergent, yet reluctant, superpower. Does Germany’s preeminence in the European Union qualify it for such lofty status? Simon Winder argues that […]
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