Posts Tagged ‘europe news’

Economic crisis ups crime rates in Spain

According to a report released by the Spanish Interior Ministry on Tuesday, over 1,100,000 offences have been reported to the authorities of the country, home to almost 47 millions, in the first six months of 2012. The ministry noted that violent crimes have witnessed a 9.5-percent increase while the number of committed murders showed a […]

‘Bankers to blame for eurozone crisis’

“The eurozone is really not in the bad shape that the policy makers tell us it is in. They are basically extorting us into accepting things like transforming the European stability mechanism, the new financing fund into a bank which allows them to get ten to hundred times leverage to recapitalize and refinance five to […]

Unemployment rises to 6.8% in Germany

According to the official figures released by Germany’s Federal Labor Agency on Tuesday, the unemployment rate in the Europe’s biggest economy jumped to 6.8 percent in July from 6.6 in June. Furthermore, the number of people out of work increased by 67,000 in comparison with the previous month at 2.876 million. Frank-Juergen Weise, the head […]

Deutsche Bank to axe 1,900 jobs

The bank, which employs nearly 101,000 people, has seen second quarter earnings slide 46 percent to 661 million euros from 1.233 billion euros in the same period a year ago, The Associated Press reported on Tuesday. The bank said about 1,500 of the job cuts will be in the investment banking business and in related […]

Solidarity says Romney is anti-union

“Regretfully, we were informed by our friends from the American headquarters of (the trade union federation) AFL-CIO, which represents more than 12 million employees… that Mitt Romney supported attacks on trade unions and employees’ rights,” Solidarity said in a statement carried by Reuters on Tuesday. In Poland, on the third and final leg of an […]

Bomb scare closes US embassy in Oslo

“The Oslo police bomb squad has removed the object and can confirm that it was a dummy bomb,” the Associated Press cited a police statement on Tuesday. “The car has been used for an internal drill at the embassy, and the find can be connected to this,” the statement said. The discovery of the device […]

France asks Google to return stolen data

France’s CNIL authority said on its website on Tuesday that it had asked Google to “place at its disposal the relevant data and to conserve the data for as long as it takes to carry out the necessary investigations.” Google had written a letter to CNIL and other European data agencies on July 27 saying […]

Italy’s June jobless rate, 13-yr. high

The rate, up from 10.6 percent in May, was released by Italy’s National Institute for Statistics (Istat) on Tuesday. The figure is reportedly the highest since the third quarter of 1999 as the EU member state continues to struggle through a persisting recession. Istat added that the Italian youth have been hit hard as joblessness […]

Italy’s June jobless rate, 13-yr. high

The rate, up from 10.6 percent in May, was released by Italy’s National Institute for Statistics (Istat) on Tuesday. The figure is reportedly the highest since the third quarter of 1999 as the EU member state continues to struggle through a persisting recession. Istat added that the Italian youth have been hit hard as joblessness […]

French camp workers fired over fasting

The men employed by the town council of Genevilliers just outside Paris were dismissed on July 20, the first day of Ramadan, under the pretext of endangering the children’s safety by not drinking or eating from dawn to dusk. On Tuesday, France’s main Muslim organization, the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), slammed the […]

French camp workers fired over fasting

The men employed by the town council of Genevilliers just outside Paris were dismissed on July 20, the first day of Ramadan, under the pretext of endangering the children’s safety by not drinking or eating from dawn to dusk. On Tuesday, France’s main Muslim organization, the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), slammed the […]

Germans condemn arms sale to Qatar

Lawmakers from the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Greens and The Left party (Die Linke) voiced outrage over Berlin’s decision to sell up to 200 advanced Leopard tanks to Qatar. They said the decision shows German Councilor Angela Markel’s “Moral bankruptcy” and Berlin’s support for the dictators and torturers. Katja Keul, the parliamentary secretary of the […]

Germans condemn arms sale to Qatar

Lawmakers from the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Greens and The Left party (Die Linke) voiced outrage over Berlin’s decision to sell up to 200 advanced Leopard tanks to Qatar. They said the decision shows German Councilor Angela Markel’s “Moral bankruptcy” and Berlin’s support for the dictators and torturers. Katja Keul, the parliamentary secretary of the […]

Spain’s Catalonia halts social payments

“It is due to a problem of liquidity,” a spokeswoman for the Catalan regional government’s economy ministry said on Tuesday. The government of the northeastern region is reportedly suspending close to 400 million euros worth of payments to head off its liquidity problem. However, the total amount of suspended grant payments was not publicized by […]

Spain’s Catalonia halts social payments

“It is due to a problem of liquidity,” a spokeswoman for the Catalan regional government’s economy ministry said on Tuesday. The government of the northeastern region is reportedly suspending close to 400 million euros worth of payments to head off its liquidity problem. However, the total amount of suspended grant payments was not publicized by […]

Russia to enhance nuclear naval forces

“We believe that our country should maintain its status of one of the leading naval powers,” Reuters quoted Putin as saying on Monday. He made the comment at a meeting of Russia’s naval commanders and government officials at the Sevmash shipbuilding yard in the north of the country as Moscow is set to build the […]

Rail accident kills 9 in Poland

The minibus, carrying eight women and two men, drove on to the crossing and hurled 30 meters down the track near the city of Lodz, Reuters reported on Monday. The crossing had a stop sign, but no barrier or guards. “The impact was so strong that we cannot even recognize the make of the vehicle,” […]

Merkel loses support on debt crisis

The poll, conducted by YouGov and printed in the Monday edition of Bild newspaper, found only 33 percent in favor of Merkel’s stance, Reuters reported. The steep erosion in domestic support for Merkel undermines her chance of winning a third term in a 2013 federal election. A mid-July poll by ZDF-Politbarometer showed 63 percent of […]

Officials issue warning on euro stability

“The euro countries have reached a point where we have to use all means possible to show that we are determined to protect the stability of the euro zone… nobody should doubt the will of those involved, to prove our determination,” Jean-Claude Juncker told France’s Le Figaro and Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspapers, Reuters reported on […]

Most Germans favor euro exit

According to the poll conducted by Bild newspaper, 51 percent of Germans believe their country will be better off without Europe’s single currency. The majority of respondents have noted that their country’s economic conditions will be better if Europe’s top economy left the 17-member debt-stricken eurozone. In the meantime, German Minister of Economy Philipp Roesler […]

Greek bank employees stage strike

The strike on Monday was called in opposition to changes taking place in the country’s banking landscape that it says Greece is implementing under pressure from its creditors. In a deal announced last week, Piraeus Bank acquired, from the state-owned lender, EUR14.7 billion in assets and EUR21.4 billion in liabilities, including EUR14.3 billion in customer […]

Romania leader survives impeachment

The figures released by the bureau showed that the Sunday voter turnout was 46 percent, short of the 50 percent threshold needed to validate the referendum. The bureau, however, did not immediately give the final outcome of the vote. Romania’s Constitutional Court ruled on July 10 that at least half of registered voters must cast […]

Most Germans favor eurozone exit

The Emnid poll for the Bild am Sonntag weekly showed 51 percent of Germans believed their country would be better off without Europe’s single currency, AFP reported on Sunday. As recently as last month, German finance ministry said it feared the country could face a significant economic slump in the event of a eurozone breakup. […]

Romania votes on pres. impeachment

Polls opened on Sunday at 7 a.m. (0400 GMT) and will close at 11 p.m. (2000 GMT) with 18 million Romanians eligible to vote, the Associated Press reported. The Romanian foreign ministry has opened polling stations in embassies in the United States, Italy, Spain, France and elsewhere where an estimated 2 million Romanians are eligible […]

Most spaniards mistrustful of PM: Poll

The Metroscopia poll, published in left-leaning newspaper El Pais, also showed 72 percent consider the prime minister not to be efficient to fight the economic crisis, Reuters reported on Sunday. The sharp fall in support for Rajoy comes after his government announced a new round of deep spending cuts and tax hikes to fight the […]

‘No room for Greece concessions’

“The aid program is already very accommodating. I cannot see that there is still scope for further concessions,” the Associated Press quoted Schaeuble as telling the Welt am Sonntag newspaper on Sunday. “It doesn’t help to speculate now about more money or more time.” Greece has been at the epicenter of the eurozone debt crisis […]

Hungary blames EU for economic crisis

“It must be said: The crisis is in fact Brussels’ crisis,” Prime Minister Victor Orban told thousands of supporters during a visit to the prominent Hungarian minority in neighbouring Romania on Saturday. “Brussels is the main obstacle to finding ways to resolve the economic problems,” Orban said in Baile Tusnad, 230 kilometres north of Bucharest. […]

Shias in Russia slam Myanmar onslaught

During a special ceremony in Moscow on Friday, the Shia Muslims from Russia and different Asian, European and African countries called for an end to the killing of Muslims in Myanmar, IRNA reported. They chanted slogans such as ‘killing of Muslims in Myanmar is condemned’ and ‘Stop the genocide in Myanmar’ to express their wrath […]

‘Russia will not let EU inspect ships’

“We do not plan to take any part in measures carrying out European Union decisions directed against Syria,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued on Saturday. “Among other things we will not consider requests and give consent to the search of ships sailing under the Russian flag, nor to the use of […]

Russian policeman killed in Dagestan

Dagestan’s Interior Ministry said on Saturday that a group of unknown assailants armed with automatic rifles attacked the police officer’s car late on Friday. The policemen succumbed to sustained injuries at the scene, RIA Novosti news agency reported. “Some 20 7.62-mm and 17 5.45-mm spent cartridges were found at the site of the attack,” an […]

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