http://www.neurope.eu An American in Europe - New Europe News: The European News Source. en-us Copyright The Media Company S.A. info@neurope.eu (New Europe) kgougakis@neurope.eu (Kostas Gougakis) Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:30:00 +0200 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:30:00 +0200 New Europe New Europe 5 http://www.neurope.eu/images/logo.jpg http://www.neurope.eu 100 35 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99627.php In a time of two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan where American troops almost single-handedly are doing the worldrsquo;s fighting against terrorism and the ceaseless quest for oil to fuel luxury cars of rich people and politicians the chances of the French-Spanish-Russian shareholder majority European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99627.php Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:21:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99461.php If there was anything the Nazis loved more than killing everyone who didnrsquo;t have blonde hairs and blue eyes it was gold and they plundered it from every bank they could find during World War II. It brings to mind the great scene at the end of the irascibly funny... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99461.php Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:23:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99315.php The war against the West ndash; including Europe ndash; began on the battlefields of New York City Washington D.C. and a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11 2001 so Europeans properly expressed their shock and horror and held their fingers they wouldnrsquo;t be the next targets of terrorism. Conditioned by the... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99315.php Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:58:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99111.php Therersquo;s a central axiom in law enforcement when yoursquo;re chasing bad guys: follow the money. Thatrsquo;s especially true when yoursquo;re trying to stop terrorists from getting funding to buy guns atomic bombs and pay their legions of lunatics although they stop the salaries of suicide bombers when the job is... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/99111.php Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:14:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98953.php Itrsquo;s too bad they donrsquo;t speak jive ebonics or hip-hop at the European Union headquarters in Brussels home of the European Commission - famous for doling out secret contracts and suing it own members for a 3.7% pay raise while 23 million jobless people none in the EUrsquo;s home wait... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98953.php Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:56:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98803.php Buried among the news stories last week but not as deep as the 1 516 NATO soldiers and 850 000 civilians dead because of the fighting in Afghanistan in the more than eight-year-old war was the little nugget that Stanley McChrystal the US General in charge has pretty much surrendered... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98803.php Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:35:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98648.php US President Barack Obamarsquo;s first anniversary in office in which almost nothing has changed under Mr. Change was celebrated with the news that his slumber of complacency was disturbed by the unsettling news that his Democratic party had lost the US Senate seat held in Massachusetts for 47 years by... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98648.php Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:33:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98346.php nbsp;A survey some time ago in Ireland that most devout of Christian and Catholic-dominated of countries found that only 53 % of people believe in hell so the other 47 % either havenrsquo;t been married or creeping atheism is afoot even there. If therersquo;s no hell then therersquo;s no heaven... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98346.php Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:21:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98195.php While Europeans pay hollow homage to football frauds like Thierry Henry Americans laud sports stars like serial adulterer Tiger Woods as icons and toss the word ldquo;herordquo; around so often it has lost its currency it should be reserved for people like Jasper Schuringa a video director from the Netherlands... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98195.php Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:24:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98051.php Even better than being an American major league baseball player earning millions of dollars a year to play 162 games fly first-class or charter stay in Five-Star hotels have someone carry your bags and get paid $85 per day 57 euros for food is being a Member of the European... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98051.php Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:22:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97934.php Now we know the criteria for winning the Nobel Peace Prize: keep sending thousands of troops to die in a war you vowed to end the day you took office and keep laying out landmines to keep maiming and killing 7 000nbsp; people a year including civilians farmers and children... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97934.php Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:42:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97793.php nbsp;The tarnished Golden Boys of Wall Street are licking their chops at the taxpayer-supplied billions in bonuses they will get for bringing their companies and the worldrsquo;s economic system to the brink of collapse because one of their own US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner who never saw a big business... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97793.php Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:46:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97646.php Right after swearing to uphold the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic what a President of the United States should know is that he never bows scrapes kneels genuflects or otherwise shows subservience of any kind to any foreign leader because too many men and... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97646.php Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:21:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97503.php While politicians who were not around to help bring down the Berlin Wall were practically dancing in the streets at the 20th anniversary celebration of its fall as if they had none will stand in front of the Green Line in Nicosia a divided capital in the European Union because... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97503.php Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:15:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97354.php During the Vietnam War era a decorated veteran named John Kerry appeared before a Congressional committee to denounce what he had been fighting for realizing it was a folly propped up by politicians in a corrupt country and their cohorts in the United States government. ldquo;How do you ask a... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97354.php Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:49:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97080.php ldquo;I got into the habit of paying for boys ... The profusion of young very attractive and immediately available boys put me in a state of desire I no longer needed to restrain or hiderdquo; ndash; French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterandrsquo;s book It must be nice being the French Minister of... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97080.php Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:36:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97057.php MUMBAI India ndash; For a man who took his business from a new player into the top tier of the worldrsquo;s best consulting companies Subramanian Ramadorai lives and speaks a life without the braggadocio he could easily elicit but donrsquo;t confuse his humility with his ability to manage people and... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97057.php Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:17:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97019.php MUMBAI India ndash; If the cowardly Pakistani terrorists who blasted their way into the lobby and the towers of the iconic Taj Mahal hotel last year firing machine guns and tossing hand grenades at guests and into the rooms of a hotel that had been built by an Indian 105... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97019.php Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:39:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96842.php If yoursquo;re looking for integrity in diplomacy a business where itrsquo;s otherwise antithetical you donrsquo;t have to go further than the name Galbraith and thatrsquo;s why the United Nations is hoping the world will soon forget they ever heard it. Peter Galbraith the USrsquo;s man in Afghanistan did the right... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96842.php Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:42:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96666.php Just what child-rapist-fugitive-from-justice Oscar-winning film director Roman Polanski needed when the long tongue of the law finally caught up with him in Switzerland 32 years after he admitted drugging and sodomizing a 13-year-old girl: Woody Allen came to his defense probably because she was too old for him and like... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96666.php Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:04:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96495.php Europe just loves taking the moral high ground against the United States especially in sports where the clean and pure sport of soccer which Europeans call football a/k/a the Beautiful Game has never suffered a scandal or racism against black players that some European fans like to identify with certain... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96495.php Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:37:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96289.php If the European Union ever doubted it has been playing second fiddle to Chinarsquo;s main interest in the world ndash; the United States ndash; it was delivered to a visiting group of EU journalists on a whirlwind guided 11-day Cookrsquo;s tour of China ranging from the artificial antiseptic glass landscape... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96289.php Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:42:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96100.php BEIJING ndash; The dilemma facing China is the paradox of how to convince the world its products are good enough to buy at the same time it has faced complaints they are shoddy and even dangerous which puzzles people on the streets here. While visiting the discount center called Silk... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/96100.php Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:38:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95938.php Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko who knows how to fix elections has admitted he told his cronies after he won with a near-unanimous vote to lower his percentage to under 90 percent the threshold he said the west ndash; which always means the United States and the European Union ndash; would... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95938.php Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:46:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95756.php When the Norwegians start throwing snowballs at you you know yoursquo;re in trouble but UN Secretary General Ban ldquo;Mr. Excitementrdquo; ki-Moon didnrsquo;t even duck or fight back and thatrsquo;s the problem: this guy is in charge of settling conflicts around the world but couldnrsquo;t keep two kids in a schoolyard... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95756.php Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:47:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95563.php When the bomb that Libyan agent Abdel Basset al-Megrahi was convicted of having had planted on Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie Scotland on Dec. 21 1988 it was not enough to destroy the aircraft just open it like an egg carton so that most of the 243 passengers... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95563.php Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:26:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95530.php Just as there is no honour among thieves there is even less among politicians especially when they are cornered by someone with courage. Thatrsquo;s what a new Member of the European Parliament Marta Andreasen 55 of the United Kingdom discovered when her cowardly colleagues on the influential budgetary control committee... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95530.php Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:42:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95352.php While US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dimitry Medvedev were in Dreamland pledging in their meeting in Moscow to move toward the day when only their enemies will have nuclear weapons North Korea and Iran were busy building their nuclear bomb programmes knowing no one will stop them... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95352.php Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:41:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95295.php Thanks to all those swell movies about Europe over the years Americans have come to believe everyone there rides a bicycle to work or just for fun English and Irish rural mailmen ringing their little bells and trying to balance the letters in their wicker baskets; lithe teenagers in places... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95295.php Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:46:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95110.php With the opening of the dazzling 180 million Euro New Acropolis Museum in Athens under the shadow of manrsquo;s greatest architectural and sculpted achievement the Parthenon the last of all the lame excuses the British Museum has used over the years to keep the marble friezes stolen by Lord Elgin... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95110.php Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:56:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94929.php Perhaps former US Vice President Al Gore is too busy shining his Nobel Peace Prize won trying to stop climate change to go to North Korea and free two of his Current TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee sentenced to 12 years of hard labour ndash; a death sentence... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94929.php Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:33:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94782.php Itrsquo;s summertime in Europe and while there seems to be a ceaseless cool wind and rain in places like Brussels itrsquo;s 38 degrees in Greece and Europersquo;s southern shores and beaches are beckoning and welcoming tourists ndash; except from England. Few places are happy when the hooligans of Britain arrive... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94782.php Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:30:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94582.php For those in London and Madrid who think itrsquo;s safe to go back into the subway in Europe who think itrsquo;s safe to go to a church movie theatre football game or open air market because the European Union is doing all it can to make sure there is never... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94582.php Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:27:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94568.php nbsp;Just mention Darfur and George Clooney Mia Farrow and the A-list of Hollywood celebrities will jump in front of cameras faster than a politician can put his hand in someone elsersquo;s pocket. Say Tibet nbsp; and Richard Gere and the rest of the has-beens trying to salvage their careers will... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94568.php Sun, 31 May 2009 00:53:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94255.php Itrsquo;s 2009 in most of the world even in places like darkest Africa where they have mobile phones and electricity now and one day might be able to see their biggest cities on Googlersquo;s Street View which allows computer users to see the street where they grew up on in... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94255.php Mon, 25 May 2009 12:50:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94226.php The case of Greecersquo;s disgraced Olympic medalists Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou who faked a motorcycle accident in 2004 to avoid being tested for drugs before the Athens Olympics showed that cheating athletes will do everything they can to avoid being caught. Now the European Union is helping them. As... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94226.php Mon, 18 May 2009 17:13:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94166.php Some of the European Unionrsquo;s savviest economic ministers and financial wizards came to Brussels last week for seminars and panels with reporters to explain ndash; after the game was over ndash; their panaceas for solving the recession that has the world on its knees. This business was started by greed... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94166.php Mon, 11 May 2009 15:11:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94080.php Like it or not Greece will eventually have to live with knowing that by whatever name it agrees to accept for its northern neighbour - which it calls FYROM but most of the rest of the world calls Macedonia - the only name it will be known by is hellip;... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/94080.php Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:11:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93987.php Therersquo;s a reason why it was 200 years since pirates tried to hijack An American ship: Americans fight back. And after three pirates were killed by US Navy Seal snipers while threatening the life of the captain from the Maersk Alabama they held hostage theyrsquo;d be smart to wait another... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93987.php Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:50:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93972.php It didnrsquo;t take long for US President Barack Obama to upstage the Nukeaphobes of the European Union who are so frightened that they donrsquo;t even want a nuclear family with his dramatic pronouncement he wants a world free of nuclear weapons. Thatrsquo;s good news for rogue elements who are planning... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93972.php Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:39:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93933.php US President Barack Obama is a serious and sober man who has all the charm of former president Bill Clinton but none of the smarmy guile and Obama hit the ground running his first few months tackling everything from climate change to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the implosion... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93933.php Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:48:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93757.php In February of 2008 Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek at the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC gave a speech entitled The Value of American Leadership in the 21st Century in which he said ldquo;The determination and resolve of the United States of America played an indispensable role in the victory... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93757.php Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:56:00 +0300 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93580.php Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has learned well there are big advantages to being called ldquo;The Last Dictator in Europerdquo; by the European Union a phrase which overlooked Russian President Vladimir Putin and a host of crackpots in the outer reaches of Europe like soon-to-be-president for life Ilham Aliyev in Azerbaijan... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93580.php Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:11:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93521.php Ten years after peace supposedly came to Northern Ireland owned by the British because they were run out of India Africa and never got over being kicked out of Boston either there is still a wall dividing Catholic and Protestant Belfast a sign that The Troubles which took 3 254... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93521.php Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:06:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93219.php Sometimes in life ndash; out of fear or panic or for whatever inexplicable reason ndash; a person commits an act so heinous it can never be absolved or erased no matter what good they do after that. US Sen. Edward ldquo;Tedrdquo; Kennedy ndash; now known as Sir Edward Kennedy after... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93219.php Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:12:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93172.php How are those bail-outs working out? Not so good since the banks in the United States and Europe who got billions of dollars and Euro are hoarding it to prop up previous bad loans and not loaning the money to get the economy rebooted the whole point of the rescues.... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/93172.php Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:27:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/92994.php First off anyone who looked into that evangelical-crazy bonkers-beatified face of American banker R. Allen Stanford - who created a world of fake institutions in places like Antigua - and gave him money deserved to be taken. You could tell he was as crooked as an Italian politician and a... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/92994.php Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:22:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/92642.php While the math wizards at the European Commission are busy wringing their hands and issuing 1 000-page reports trying to figure out why Bulgaria is still corrupt more than two years after joining the European Union herersquo;s the answer in one sentence. Take notes Brussels. A cop in Bulgaria earns... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/92642.php Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:12:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/92595.php Now we know the Pope isnrsquo;t infallible. Under pressure from German Chancellor Angela Merkel Pope Benedict XVI backtracking faster than the French Army in World War II said an apparently delusional ultra-conservative Bishop would now have to publicly refute his denial of the Holocaust and idiotic belief the Nazis didnrsquo;t... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/92595.php Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:24:00 +0200 http://www.neurope.eu/articles/92243.php So new US President St. Barack Obamarsquo;s baptism of fire was to take on the banks who stole USD 1.4 trillion in taxpayer money in a bail-out that was really a bank robbery in reverse and say it was ldquo;shamefulrdquo; they awarded themselves USD 18.4 billion in bonuses. Whatrsquo;s he... info@neurope.eu (New Europe) American http://www.neurope.eu/articles/92243.php Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:30:00 +0200