The current fall in oil prices squarely caused by this
strategy of despair is in the process of smashing the oil/gas industry. The
Ukrainian crisis, far from allowing the West to get its hands on Russia, is in
the process of forcing it to rethink its dependence on Europe as a customer for
its gas. All these radical changes in oil geopolitics are both the cause and
consequence of a crisis that is often ignored: that of the oil industry. One
thought it had been saved thanks to shale oil; it will lose because of shale
oil...
LEAP
Investments had to make it to the top of agenda sooner or
later. Low growth, deflation risks, high unemployment, and decreasing
investments levels indicate that something is still wrong...
EUObserver
Fading hopes OPEC will cut production when it meets Thursday
sent oil prices tumbling to a four-year low and the world stock-market rally
paused for Thanksgiving in the United States...
Reuters
Lord Smith describes agreement as ‘biggest transfer of
powers to the Scottish parliament since its establishment’...
The Guardian
A few words are necessary on his path to which investigative
journalists should pay more attention. Mr. David O’Sullivan appeared on the
radar of our European path at the beginning of the 90s, when he was a unit head
at the Directorate General for Education running the TEMPUS programme, a
programme which had been singled out by the European Court of Auditors
following an open letter from Franck Biancheri denouncing embezzlement in this
programme...
LEAP/GEAB
An overwhelming majority of European parliamentarians
expressed their support of Jean-Claude Juncker as European Commission president
on Thursday by rejecting a motion of no confidence against him. Juncker
survived the vote 461-101...
Deutsche Welle
This book makes an important contribution to the existing
literature on European social democracy in the wake of the 2008 financial crash
and ensuing recession. It assesses how social democratic parties have
responded, at the national as well as at the European Union level. A wide range
of leading political scientists provide the reader with an in-depth
understanding of the prospects for social democracy in the midst of an
unprecedented crisis for neoliberalism.
Manchester University Press
Sberbank, Russia’s largest lender, will be the first bank in
the country to start issuing credit guarantees denominated in Chinese yuan. The
new yuan-based letters of credit ensure payments between buyers and sellers,
with the bank acting as a router...
RT
Paris a immédiatement joint le geste à la parole: dans la
foulée de l'annonce officielle, le ministre de la Défense, Jean-Yves Le Drian,
a fait un voyage express à Varsovie...
Le Figaro
Henry Kissinger is the most famous and most divisive
secretary of state the US has ever had. In an interview, he discusses his new
book exploring the crises of our time, from Syria to Ukraine, and the limits of
American power. He says he acted in accordance with his convictions in
Vietnam...
It is logically inconsistent for the eurozone to enter
secular stagnation and not restructure / Il est logiquement incohérent pour la
monnaie unique d’entrer dans une stagnation de longue durée et de ne pas
restructurer sa dette...
Financial Times
Remarks by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the XXII
Assembly of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy, Moscow, 22 November 2014
For over a decade, Russia has been trying to establish
partnership ties with NATO through CSTO. These efforts were not just about
putting NATO and CSTO “in the same league.” As a matter of fact, CSTO is
focused on catching drug dealers and illegal migrants around the Afghan border,
and the North-Atlantic Treaty Organisation is the backbone of the international
security forces, which, among other things, were tasked with fighting the
terrorist threat and eliminating its financing schemes, which involve drug
trafficking. We tried everything...
Vineyardsaker
EU parliament votes for break-up of Google
EU lawmakers have voted in a favor of a resolution that
would force Internet companies to separate search engines from commercial
services. Though not named, Internet search giant Google, was the target of the
vote...
Deutsche Welle
India moving towards tax friendly regime, Arun Jaitley says
Advocating a tax structure which discourages evasion, he
said there was a misconception that high tax rates lead to higher revenues...
Times of India
Netherlands repatriates its gold from Federal Reserve
In what could definitely be called a stunning move, the
Netherlands has announced it has repatriated in excess of 120 tonnes of gold
from the vaults of the Federal Reserve in New York to the Dutch Central Bank in
Amsterdam...
WND
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