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	05/15/13 - Serious UK Difficulties Ahead as Cameron Struggles with EU Withdrawal Cameron and his party conspire to create a European shambles ... The Prime Minister's concessions over the EU referendum have eroded his authority ... The tragedy for David ...

	05/14/13 - Correct, Mayor Johnson, the Real Problem is Not the EU Quitting the EU won't solve our problems, says Boris Johnson ... Britain's economic problems would not be solved by simply leaving the European Union, Boris Johnson warns. This ...

	05/08/13 - A Flawed Message Join the debate on Europe – YouTube ... The European Union – would your life be any different if it didn't exist? Watch this video and join the debate ...

	05/06/13 - Globalist Euro Disaster: Euro Founder Endorses Bust-Up German euro founder calls for 'catastrophic' currency to be broken up ... Oskar Lafontaine, the German finance minister who launched the euro, has called for a break-up of the ...

	04/29/13 - Farce of the Bundesbank Bundesbank declares 'war' on Mario Draghi bond bail-out at Germany's top court. Germany's Bundesbank has issued a devastating attack on the bond rescue policies of the European ...

	04/26/13 - From German Recession to Euro Jeopardy Germany will enter recession, says George Soros ... As one of America's most successful investors warns the eurocrisis is far from over, we consider the investment case for ...

	04/23/13 - EU Backs Off Austerity Limit Austerity, EU Official Says A top European Union official signaled his support Monday for relaxing Europe's austerity drive, in what could be a significant break for ...

	04/10/13 - Dictators Always Miscalculate 'I acted like a dictator to bring in the euro': Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl admits power-trip forced continent to accept single currency ... Newly published 2002 ...

	04/09/13 - Cypriot Chaos Assists EU Centralization Remarks by members of the European Union's elite suggesting that banking deposit seizures may become standard practice appear to have heightened the risk of a European bank run ...

	04/08/13 - What the Eurozone Needs Is More Centralization A banking union for the Eurozone ... The crisis has highlighted the need for, and difficulties with, a Eurozone banking union. This column argues that, to make a union, you ...

	04/04/13 - Now It's The Netherlands's Turn Economic Crisis Hits the Netherlands ... The Netherlands, Berlin's most important ally in pushing for greater budgetary discipline in Europe, has fallen into an economic crisis ...

	03/28/13 - What Is the REAL Euro End Game? Instead Of Doing His Job, Jeroen Dijsselbloem Has Given Us A Glimpse Of The Euro 'End Game' ... If you've been following the Cyprus bailout story at all, you're probably ...

	03/25/13 - Unwise Deepening of an Unnecessary Crisis Cyprus crisis is at the heart of fundamental problems in the eurozone ... According to the well-known quotation from Virgil, you should beware Greeks bearing gifts. But what ...

	03/22/13 - Cyprus Lifts the Curtain This week financial analysts, economists, politicians, and bank depositors from around the world were outraged that European leaders, more specifically the Germans, currently ...

	03/20/13 - Real Reason for the Cyprus Debacle? The Cyprus precedent ... Given that this policy was not merely rubber-stamped but engineered by Eurozone finance ministers and the IMF (indeed, the IMF wanted an even deeper ...

	03/19/13 - Was the EU Right About Cyprus? Why the EU is right on Cyprus ... Cyprus's population is about three times that of Iceland. But once the panic about their bank deposits subsides, Cypriots might take a closer ...

	03/18/13 - Do EU Wonks Really Have Endless Time to Get It Right? Analysis: Europe's social shock-absorbers show crisis strain ... With more than 26 million unemployed in the 27-nation European Union, including nearly 6 million young people, ...

	03/13/13 - Europe Needs Rigor? Without coordinated leadership, Europe will falter ... There is an increasing probability that financial markets will respond negatively to the unfolding economic and political ...

	03/12/13 - Greece's Futile Austerity Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Saturday promised his recession-weary nation that there would be "no more austerity measures" as international creditors prolonged an ...

	03/08/13 - Dancing Into the Abyss, Against All Reason "Financial markets are not yet pricing in US over-indebtedness. If they did, the world would be heading towards a 'blood-red abyss'." ~ Professor Laurence J. Kotlikoff Over the ...

	03/07/13 - With Italy's Election, the EU Chasm Grows Italy's Bersani on collision course with Germany and ECB over austerity ... Italy's Pier Luigi Bersani vowed to break free of the country's austerity regime as he laid out ...

	03/05/13 - What the EU Bank Bonus Plan Really Accomplishes Europe Union Agrees on Plan to Limit Bankers' Bonuses ... The move, part of a package of banking regulations known as Basel III that is aimed at reducing the danger of big bank ...

	03/01/13 - Two-Tier 'Privileged Flyer' Program Advances in EU: Non-Approved Unable to Fly? 'Smart borders': enhancing mobility and security ... The EU is moving towards a more modern and efficient border management by using state-of-the-art technology. Today, the ...

	02/28/13 - USSR Redux: Top Eurocrats Indicate Europe's Recovery Will Be Centrally Planned and Green Europe's Green Recovery ... BRUSSELS – The need for clean energy has returned to the top of the global economic agenda ... In his second inaugural address, US President ...

	02/22/13 - EU Sees More Shrinkage as Dialectic Expands Euro zone economy to shrink again ... "The improved financial market situation contrasts with the absence of credit growth and the weakness of the near-term outlook for ...

	02/07/13 - Another Critically Important EU Summit! Fate of World to be Determined EU leaders set for crucial budget summit ... European Union leaders are due to begin a two-day summit in Brussels to try to strike a deal on the next seven years of EU ...

	01/30/13 - EU Financial Tax Portends Loss of Market Leadership Although it was barely noticed by the American press, on January 22nd, EU finance ministers approved a new "Financial Transactions Tax" (FTT) that has implications for market ...

	01/19/13 - France and the UK Could Be the Lynchpins of Europe Over the past two months, Europe's problems seem to have disappeared from the headlines. However, the new French Socialist government is pushing ahead with policies that favor ...

	01/11/13 - Now Greece Bans Cash – Again Greek Finance Ministry plans to put an end to cash payments. Purchases worth more than 500 euro will be not possible with cash money anymore. Finance minister Yiannis ...

	01/10/13 - Does Startling Der Spiegel Article Indicate the End of the Euro Crisis? Euro-Crisis Hope Confidence in European Banks Is Returning ... There is cause for hope in Southern Europe. New numbers indicate that trust is returning to banks located in ...

	12/19/12 - Does Berlusconi Matter to the EU? Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Tuesday Italy would be forced to leave the euro zone unless the European Central Bank gets more powers to ensure lower borrowing ...

	12/11/12 - Another Meme Sours? EU Peace Prize Generates Continued Debate Not so noble: EU's Peace Prize win sparks debate over legitimacy ... The European Union's presidents have received this year's Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the 27-member ...

	12/07/12 - EU's Directed History Grinds On EU summit to consider 'reform contracts' for all euro states ... Draft ideas ahead of next week's EU leaders summit foresee reform contracts for all euro states, political ...

	11/30/12 - New Meaning for 'Voluntary' and Bond Buyback Balancing Act It is a deep stretch of the imagination to twist arms and appeal to "patriotic duty" in an effort to coerce someone to do something they really do not want to, then call the ...

	11/24/12 - No Surprise: Britain's PM Continues His Support of the EU British Prime Minister David Cameron is standing up for Britain against Brussels, or that is what we're led to believe. But actually, it is to a large degree simply more ...

	11/19/12 - What's Never Grappled With ... We're heading for economic dictatorship. The whole of the West is falling into the economic black hole of permanent no-growth ... Forget about that dead parrot of a question ...

	11/16/12 - Good News: EU Budget Talks Collapse France Rejects Compromise; Still Time to Snatch Defeat From Jaws of Victory I have a bit of good news today. The efforts of European Council president Herman Van Rompuy to ...

	11/12/12 - Directed History: A Fact of Life? The news from the EU front becomes ever more bizarre. Last Wednesday, just before Angela Merkel flew to London to tell David Cameron how desperately she wants Britain to stay ...

	11/09/12 - EU's Plight: Sadism or a Cold-Blooded Takedown? Who will stop the Sado-Monetarists as jobless youth hits 58pc in Greece? Greek unemployment rose to 25.4pc in August. Youth unemployment rose to 58pc. Under the official ...

	11/08/12 - Now EU Seeks to Ban the Family Brussels takes aim at the Famous Five! Books portraying 'traditional' families could be barred ... Books that reinforce traditional roles can contribute to gender stereotyping, ...

	10/31/12 - David Cameron Is Piggy-in-the-Middle Well, it's not all bad news, because in Britain the opinion polls are clear that a clear, settled majority of Brits now want to leave this Union, leaving David Cameron as ...

	10/25/12 - Diminishing EU a Wonder to Behold Britain has left the European Union in all but name ... To all intents and purposes, the UK is already out. We stayed still. Europe galloped away without us. No doubt we can ...

	10/24/12 - Nobel Selects EU ... World Snorts? Despite a year marked by one of the worst crises in decades and repeated scenes of social unrest across the continent, the European Union has been awarded the 2012 Nobel peace ...

	10/19/12 - Japan Chosen as the Global Economic Model!? "There is essentially no difference between one administration and another, no matter what the platform." ~ Ron Paul, on CNBC Futures Now; he also stated that "They ...

	10/13/12 - Nobel Backlash Is Symptomatic of a Deeper Elite Issue The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize, which is usually given to a person. There's been a good deal of astonishment over the award as people have a hard time ...

	10/12/12 - Greece Still the Word, Time Still Money Battle of Bailouts; Coca Cola, Greece's Biggest Company Leaves Germany and the IMF, which in recent past seemed ambivalent at best to keeping Greece in the eurozone, are ...

	10/11/12 - The IMF Turns Tail on EU Austerity Why the IMF has got it so hopelessly wrong on the euro crisis ... David Cameron and George Osborne are not for turning, but the International Monetary Fund is plainly made of ...

	09/21/12 - Economists Can Neither Think Nor See The global recession, which started in Europe, is strengthening led by further declines in the eurozone. Markit reports Eurozone sees steepest contraction since June 2009 ...

	08/30/12 - Wealthy Yacht Owners Subject to Elite Divide and Conquer Scheme Yachts Raided by Tax Authorities in Italy ... August should be the high season for yachters lounging off the coast of Italy. But this summer, many are staying clear to avoid a ...

	08/09/12 - Cracking of the Euro-Elite ... The Triumph of Hope? Euro founder admits some nations may be forced to leave ... One of the founding fathers of the euro admits that some states may be forced to abandon the single currency, but ...

	07/30/12 - The Euro Was a Terrible Idea: Let Us Salvage It and Make It Worse Only Mario Draghi's ECB can avert global calamity before the year is out ... Mario Draghi has promised the moon. The European Central Bank's council had better deliver on his ...

	07/27/12 - Results, Results, Results The word of the day today quite obviously is "results." When the second-in-command of top-ranking eurocrats threatens Greece with expulsion unless results are produced, it's ...

	06/29/12 - Does Announced EU Deal Leave Out Critical Elements? 'Armageddon' to Happen Despite EU Deal ... Jim Rogers, Chairman of Rogers Holdings says the latest euro zone deal does nothing to help solve the region's biggest problem, which ...

	06/29/12 - EU News ... Laughable Text of EU "Memorandum of Understanding"; ESM Not Been Ratified Yet Already Requires Changes; How Much ESM Firepower Is There? Futures are flying over a ...

	06/28/12 - The Most Important Meeting in the World ... Again The Fate of the Global Financial System Hangs in the Balance ... Critical meetings are taking place today and tomorrow which may decide the fate of the EU. With that as the ...

	06/27/12 - EU Continues to Go Down the Wrong Track Robert Mundell, evil genius of the euro ... For the architect of the euro, taking macroeconomics away from elected politicians and forcing deregulation were part of the plan ...

	06/26/12 - Could You Make It Up? ... World's Oldest Bank Gets Modern Bailout Worth Billions Italy to put €2bn into world's oldest bank Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena ... The Italian government said Tuesday it will provide struggling Banca Monte dei Paschi di ...

	06/22/12 - German Supreme Court Delays ESM Another Setback for Merkel; Creeping Bailouts; Reflections on German Expectations Reader "Bert" from Germany writes ... Hello Mish The German Supreme Court asked the president ...

	06/19/12 - An Ominous Greece Parallel: The 1930s and the EU Today "The Euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg and sadly there simply aren't enough lifeboats." – Nigel Farage, United Kingdom Independence Party Another Greek election and an ...

	06/15/12 - Any Rabbits Left in the Hat? Inquiring minds are poring over the ESM Treaty to see how it is supposed to work in theory, assuming it will be ratified by counties with the required 90% of EMU voting rights. ...

	06/13/12 - Nothing But a Full Union Will Do ... Debt crisis: Bundesbank scuppers all talk of EU banking union ... Germany's central bank has shot down EU proposals for a European banking union, warning categorically that ...

	06/10/12 - Robert Oulds on the Collapse of Today's EU and Why He Hopes It Happens The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Robert Oulds. Introduction: Mr. Oulds is the Director of the London-based Bruges Group, and an ...

	06/09/12 - Hollande About to Wreck France? Hollande About to Wreck France With Economically Insane Proposal: "Make Layoffs So Expensive For Companies That It's Not Worth It" Unemployment in France touched 10.2% in ...

	06/08/12 - Thump ... Thump ... Disastrous Financial Tax One Step Closer German parties strike deal on financial market tax ... The German government and the main opposition parties have agreed on the principles of a tax on financial market ...

	06/01/12 - Hyperbolic Selloff Coming? Hyperbolic Selloff Coming? IMF Discusses Spanish Contingency Plans; Madrid Denies Plans; Hispabonos Dropped From Cabinet Discussion The latest word of the day is the already ...

	05/30/12 - Europe's Banks Run Out of Money ... Again Quite why anybody thought that a €1 trillion liquidity blitz through the banks is better than €1 trillion in genuine QE is beyond me. I think the ECB has twisted ...

	05/28/12 - Economist Mag: Cook the European Union Slowly Via This Phony Crisis The future of the European Union ... The choice: A limited version of federalism is a less miserable solution than the break-up of the euro In recent months we have concluded ...

	05/26/12 - What if Tsipras is Not Bluffing? What if Tsipras is Not Bluffing? Who Holds the Upper hand? What is Troika's Biggest Fear? Can Greece Possibly Stay in the Eurozone After Default? I have read countless articles ...

	05/24/12 - Super Rompuy to the Rescue? EU plans to speed up closer union to save euro ... A top EU official is launching a plan to rescue the eurozone by binding its 17 nations closer together. There is a widely ...

	05/24/12 - Nigel Farage Explains Why Greece Needs a Floating Drachma President, we're in the midst of an economic and increasingly humanitarian crisis and yet Commission president Barroso is not here. Indeed, Herman van Rompuy is not here ...

	05/21/12 - Internet Reformation Is EU Reality? Europe finally awakes from its utopian dream ... Let's say this again, just in case a single sentient being on the planet has missed it: Germany cannot simply decide to bail ...

	05/18/12 - The Greek Default Was a Scam All Along? Global banks see market rally on Greek exit ... Major global banks are advising clients to prepare for a stock market rally and a resurgence of the euro if Greece is forced out ...

	05/16/12 - Merkel Admits the Entire EU Is Nothing But a Large Promotion Merkel and Hollande spell out Greek fear ... The leaders of France and Germany on Tuesday joined forces to urge Greece to reaffirm its commitment to membership of the eurozone, ...

	05/16/12 - Greece: Dump the EU Now For An Economic Recovery! "Attempts to form a government in Greece collapsed on Tuesday, jolting financial markets at the prospect leftists opposed to the terms of an EU bailout could sweep to victory ...

	05/11/12 - The Euro Is Finished? And What Comes Next? ... It's too late for Germany to save the euro ... Despite belated gestures from Berlin, the single currency cannot survive if and when Greece leaves it ... Greece's motorcycling ...

	05/09/12 - Biggest Question: Will Germany Adjust or Will Euro Die? Crisis escalates as insurrection breaks German control of Europe ... The political dam has broken in Europe. German Chancellor Angela Merkel no longer has enough allies in the ...

	05/08/12 - UN Claims Sub-Saharan Africa Faces Dramatic Crisis as New Nation State Is Formed UN agencies warn of 'dramatic' crisis in Sahel ... Northern Africa's Sahel region risks being plunged into a dramatic humanitarian crisis unless aid for those affected by ...

	04/27/12 - Spain's Collapse Is No Little Thing S&P cuts Spain's credit rating by two notches to BBB+ ... Standard & Poor's cut Spain's sovereign debt rating Thursday by two notches, warning that the government's ...

	04/23/12 - EU Unraveling – Now It's Holland's Turn The Dutch government's failure to reach an agreement in talks to achieve tough spending cuts could see ratings agencies cut the country's prized AAA-rating and nervous ...

	04/20/12 - Spain Bans Cash Spain Bans Cash Transactions Over 2,500 Euros ... Spain has outlawed the use of cash in business transactions in excess 2,500 euros in order to crack down on the black market ...

	04/13/12 - Debt Crisis Plotted to Deliver the Euro to the IMF? Spanish bailout 'impossible' for eurozone, says prime minister Mariano Rajoy ... The eurozone is not equipped to bail out Spain, the country's prime minister Mariano Rajoy has ...

	03/14/12 - Photo Signifying End of the European Union? On Monday night in Brussels the choreography went horribly wrong: Jean Claude Juncker, head of the group of 17 euro zone finance ministers, was snapped strangling his Spanish ...

	03/13/12 - The Rare Earth Meme – Another Scarcity Hoax China slapped with rare earth trade dispute ... The European Union, United States and Japan formally asked the World Trade Organization on Tuesday to settle a dispute with ...

	02/29/12 - Internet Reformation Rolls On? ... Now Ireland Vote Seen as Threat to EU Decision to hold referendum surprises many across EU ... The decision to hold a referendum could have profound consequences for the country's future prosperity has caused some ...

	02/29/12 - Gold: Is it Time to Sell? What the Facts Tell Us. The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson The week started with the news of a "Decision day for second Greek bailout ...

	02/27/12 - Eminent Scholar: EU Will Survive, not Countries The Emperor of Vanished Kingdoms ... Here's a thought. What if the euro survives the present economic crisis but the European Union—or even the United ...

	02/26/12 - Mark Tier on Effective Investing, Where the World Is Headed and Why Financial Literacy Helps The Daily Bell is pleased to present this interview with Mark Tier. Introduction: Mark Tier is an Australian based in Hong Kong partly because “paying taxes is ...

	02/21/12 - Elites Blow Up Greece on Purpose? Can a return to the drachma save Greece as unemployment soars? ... The latest best-seller is the Greek translation of Heinrich Winkler's "Weimar 1918-1933: History of the First ...

	02/20/12 - EU's Prodi Admits Leaders Knew Euro Would Cause Ruin but Hoped Political Union Would Follow The Flowers that Launched the Euro ... To mark the anniversary of the arrival of the euro in the form of notes and coins, euronews spoke with Romano Prodi, who in 2002 was ...

	02/14/12 - Now EU Kicking Spain Out of EU? EU to punish Spain for deficits, inaction ... The European Union is likely to take action against Spain's newly installed government by May for delaying austerity measures ...

	01/23/12 - Irish Bulldog Vincent Browne Pounds EU's Klaus Masuch Over the Irish Bank Bailout Last Thursday in Dublin, Vincent Browne was like a dog with a bone at the ECB/EU/IMF Troika Press Conference. He put a question to the ECB's Klaus Masuch - a question that he ...

	01/05/12 - Dialectic of a Universal Transaction Tax EU transaction tax 'in law by year end' ... The European Union is set to move ahead with plans for a financial transaction tax despite British opposition, with a senior French ...

	12/20/11 - Beware the Coming Bailouts of Europe The economic establishment in this country has come to the conclusion that it is not a matter of "if" the United States must intervene in the bailout of the euro, but simply a ...

	12/16/11 - Smoke and Mirrors of Global Depression Reflect the Inevitability of the IMF? Brussels accord on the verge of collapse ... Some of the world's most powerful investment banks were downgraded by ratings agency Fitch as Germany's cherished European fiscal ...

	12/12/11 - Planned Chaos of Euro Collapse? EU debt deal may be divisive for Europe ... Heads of state in Europe are congratulating each other for agreeing to a deal that will force fiscal discipline on European Union ...

	12/10/11 - 500 Year Old Global 'Roll-Up' Founders? And another one gone, and another one gone ... Another one bites the dust − Queen Is it possible that the biggest roll-up in history is foundering? What roll-up? ...

	12/09/11 - Financial Times Changes Article Headline on EU Three Times! Can someone at your illustrious newspaper explain why the headline changed from "EU fails to reach an agreement" to "Eurozone signs up to closer ties" in the space of 10 ...

	12/08/11 - Say What? ... UK Telegraph Promotes Cameron's EU Support as 'Honourable' David Cameron's support of the euro is honourable, yet it could ruin him ... The Prime Minister's stand on the single currency is in the national interest, but not necessarily ...

	11/30/11 - Coordinated Central Bank Rescue: The Smell of Money Central Banks Take Joint Action to Ease Debt Crisis ... The Federal Reserve moved Wednesday with other major central banks to buttress the financial system by increasing the ...

	11/26/11 - Is the Sovereign Debt Crisis a Replay of the Versailles Treaty? Here at The Daily Bell we track dominant social themes of the Anglosphere power elite (the only elite that matters) and recently we've been pointing out that much of what is ...

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