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Insight: Facing austerity, Europe’s bureaucrats chafe

YoopyaNov 19, 20120

(Reuters) – Workers protesting austerity on the streets of southern Europe weren’t to know it, but earlier this month there was also a strike at

Insight: The Mittelstand – one German product that may not be exportable

YoopyaNov 17, 20120

(Reuters) – Philipp Klais, who runs the organ manufacturer in Bonn that his great-grandfather founded in 1882, gets requests every week from foreign officials as

BBC crisis: Lord McAlpine ‘angry’ over abuse claim

YoopyaNov 15, 20120

Tory peer Lord McAlpine has spoken of his anger after a BBC Newsnight report led to him being wrongly implicated in child abuse allegations. The

Anti-austerity strikes sweep Europe

YoopyaNov 14, 20120

(Reuters) – Millions of workers joined strikes across southern Europe on Wednesday to protest against spending cuts and tax hikes that trade unions say have

Russia paroles physicist jailed for espionage

YoopyaNov 13, 20120

(Reuters) – A Russian court on Tuesday paroled a physicist convicted of spying for China in 2004 in a case that was criticized by human rights campaigners

Abu Qatada to be released from prison

YoopyaNov 13, 20120

Muslim cleric Abu Qatada is due to be released on bail after winning the latest stage in his seven-year legal battle to avoid deportation to

Special Report: Greece’s far-right party goes on the offensive

YoopyaNov 13, 2012June 25, 20230

(Reuters) – Arm raised in a Nazi-style salute, the leader of Greece’s fastest-rising political party surveyed hundreds of young men in black T-shirts as they

Analysis: European austerity protests far from revolution

YoopyaNov 12, 20120

(Reuters) – In a cafe near the former site of Paris’s Bastille prison, activists held a meeting last month to decide whether to join unions

Poland Independence Day march turns violent

YoopyaNov 12, 20120

Clashes broke out in Warsaw as riot police confronted right-wing nationalists during a Polish Independence Day march. Some of an estimated 20,000 marchers threw fireworks

Greece MPs approve new austerity budget amid protests

YoopyaNov 12, 20120

Greek lawmakers have approved the 2013 budget involving fresh spending cuts, despite mass public street protests. The budget was passed by 167 votes to