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Posted March 13, 2012

Until 11 March 2011, Fukushima was associated with luck - the name means 'good-fortune-island'. Scenic routes along the coast attracted hundreds of thousands of tourists every year but then the tsunami caused by an earthquake struck and devastated the coastal region, wiping out entire...

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Germany’s 'euro-apartheid'

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Posted February 16, 2012

During the crisis, Deutsche Bank AG has once again reported yet another record pre-tax profit of €5.4 billion.

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'Angie in Wonderland'?

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Posted February 9, 2012

While the Obama administration is eager to create jobs, the EU pushes through austerity measures that will lead to further declines in production and growth rates.

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Standard & Poor's, granny poorer: Nothing has really changed

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Posted January 24, 2012

When the Polish EU Presidency and the European Parliament in October 2011 clinched a deal that beefed up standards for the practices of short-selling and trading in credit default swaps (CDS), a financial product insuring against default, there was hope that our leaders had understood and...

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Nationalisations are at hand, but will this collide with free market?

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Posted January 22, 2012

'Could Greece’s next rescue payout go straight into the pockets of London hedge funds?' asked the International Herald Tribune (IHT) on its front page of 11 January 2012. Across the North Sea in Germany, negative sentiments over further bailouts and rescue missions for...

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