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More good news from the New York Times!  Here is an article on German politics.  Chancellor Merkel was trying to decide if she should attend a soccer game as a guest of its owner, under investigation for tax evasion (maybe he used Uebertax!) and it is hardly salad days for her governing coalition: But for [...]

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This blog writer at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (found at Real Clear World) warns us solemnly:  Let’s hope the Alternative for Germany fails for good: But absent a concerted and determined effort by Germans and all Europeans to refute AfD’s populism and consign it to political no-man’s land, the crisis in [...]

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When I first heard the European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize, I thought:  No, it can’t be.  Got to be some sort of EU official.  NOPE.  Not the Onion!  The European Union was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Here’s a CNN story and another and here’s the Nobel page’s citation.  Here’s the first paragraph: [...]

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This Reuters article is what I expected on the eve of the Greek elections:  Vote Tweedledee or Tweedledum or ELSE! European leaders urged Greece to reject radical leftists who threaten to tear up the terms of a bailout deal should they win an election on Sunday, a result that would send shockwaves through global financial [...]

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These two articles found on Real Clear Politics show the threat to the US that the European Union is. The first article makes a eloquent plea that the euro will survive but maybe not the EU.  This is great news for liberty and the United States. Though it is not too late to save the [...]

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This is an intriguing article at nationalinterest.org talking about how the US will have to bail out the European superstate.  It is the TARP argument all over again: This is more than ironic. It is unreal, tragic in fact, because everyone around the conference table will know that a collapse of the euro would not [...]

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Time has what is yet another funeral announcement for the euro: Investors aren’t convinced Europe’s politicians have the will, ability or political clout to push through such excruciating fiscal adjustments, at least not in any reasonable period of time. Research firm Capital Economics figures that even with reform, Italy will still need two decades to [...]

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Slovakia is the “other” and poorer half of the former Czechoslovakia.  The nation became independent through the peaceful efforts of both the Czechs and the Slovaks to do what the majority of the Slovaks wanted:  Independence.  (A. Lincoln, call your office!)  But it was not until the late 90s that it’s economic situation began to [...]

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Der Spiegel is reporting that Greece is preparing to leave the euro zone: The debt crisis in Greece has taken on a dramatic new twist. Sources with information about the government’s actions have informed SPIEGEL ONLINE that Athens is considering withdrawing from the euro zone. The common currency area’s finance ministers and representatives of the [...]

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From Irish Central comes this column from Christopher M. Quigley, who calls himself a Dublin-based financial expert and writer.  He calls for Ireland to drop the euro and adopt either the dollar or the British Pound Sterling: Ireland needs to get support from her Euro zone partners which will enable her to significantly cut her [...]

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Estonia is a small nation in eastern Europe on the Baltic Sea.  It was independent from 1918 through 1940 and then in a cynical deal between Hitler and Stalin, it was forcibly occupied by the USSR for over fifty years.  Thankfully, the USA never recognized the occupation of Estonia (or Latvia or Lithuania); finally in [...]

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Der Spiegel is the leading magazine in Germany.  This story is encouraging and breathtaking.  The Chancellor of Germany said this Thursday: During a speech given during the awarding of the prestigious Charlemagne Prize for furthering European unity in Aachen on Thursday, Chancellor Angela Merkel used strong words to address the current euro zone crisis. If [...]

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