Economic Hitmen Strike Again: Spain Planning to Privatize Airports
Santiago Perez Dow Jones Newswires MADRID -(Dow Jones)- The Spanish government plans to privatize the country’s top two airports, as part of a series of…
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UK banks borrowed more than $1 trillion from US Federal Reserve
British banks borrowed more than $1 trillion (£640bn) from the Federal Reserve during the financial crisis, led by Barclays following its swoop on the US…
US Ready to Back Bigger EU Stability Fund: IMF Official
Dees Illustration Reuters The United States would be ready to support the extension of the European Financial Stability Facility via an extra commitment of money…
Nigel Farage: Why We Would be Better Off Out of This Chaos
Nigel Farage UK Express IS it time to leave the European Union, would we be Better Off Out? As the Daily Express courageously insists: Of…
Ireland’s Debt Servitude
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Telegraph Stripped to its essentials, the €85bn package imposed on Ireland by the Eurogroup and the European Central Bank is a bail-out for…
Why is Greenland so rich these days? It said goodbye to the EU
Photo: PA Alex Singleton The Telegraph If you think that leaving the EU would be catastrophic, take a look at Greenland. By rights its people…
Citizens of Europe Rage Against the Machine
Austerity measures drive 100,000 protesters to the streets of Ireland, another 100,000 in Italy as Europeans continue to rage against the international banking machine. Eric Blair Activist…
Default! Say the Irish People
Irish negotiators raised defaulting but ‘Europe went completely mad’ Jody Corcoran Irish Independent A SUBSTANTIAL majority of the Irish people wants the State to default…
Iceland Better Off Than Ireland Because They Let Big Private Banks Fail, says President
Iceland Recovering Jonas Bergman and Omar R. Valdimarsson Bloomberg Iceland’s President Olafur R. Grimsson said his country is better off than Ireland thanks to the…
Spain’s leader vows deficit reduction amid crisis
Harold Heckle Associated Press MADRID — Spain’s prime minister mounted a vigorous defense Saturday of his nation’s economy and finances, insisting his administration will forge…
Irish Pension Reserve Funds Openly Targeted by Banksters
Ann Cahill Irish Examiner UP to €15 billion from the National Pensions Reserve Fund, set aside when the Celtic Tiger was still roaring, is likely…
Debt turmoil, contagion fears sweep Europe
Illustration: Market Oracle Barry Hatton Associated Press LISBON, Portugal – Europe struggled mightily Friday to keep the debt crisis from engulfing country after country. Portugal…
Euro slides as Portugal bailout pressure builds
Portugal is under pressure to accept an EU bailout in order to stop the eurozone debt contagion spreading to Spain, according to German press reports…
99% Of You Say: Get Us Out of Europe — UK Poll
Macer Hall UK Express A MASSIVE wave of public support was last night surging behind the Daily Express’s crusade to liberate Britain from the stranglehold…