Europe

First detailed genetic history of Europe reveals multiple waves of migration

by Attention to the Unseen 05.09.2013

A new study, published in the journal Nature Communications, provides the first detailed genetic history of Europe. National Geographic reports: Rather than a single or a few migration events, Europe was occupied several times, in waves, by different groups, from different directions and at different times. The first modern humans to reach Europe arrived from [...]

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Europe’s south rises up against those who act as sadistic colonial masters

by News Sources 03.28.2013

Costas Douzinas writes: The “new world order” announced at the end of the 1980s was the shortest in history. Protest, riots and uprisings erupted all over the world after the 2008 crisis, leading to the Arab spring, the Indignados and Occupy. A former director of operations at MI6, quoted by Paul Mason, called it “a [...]

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The root of Europe’s riots

by News Sources 09.29.2012

Ha-Joon Chang writes: Throughout the 1980s and 90s, when many developing countries were in crisis and borrowing money from the International Monetary Fund, waves of protests in those countries became known as the “IMF riots”. They were so called because they were sparked by the fund’s structural adjustment programmes, which imposed austerity, privatisation and deregulation. [...]

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The European atrocity you never heard about

by News Sources 06.29.2012

R.M. Douglas writes: The screams that rang throughout the darkened cattle car crammed with deportees, as it jolted across the icy Polish countryside five nights before Christmas, were Dr. Loch’s only means of locating his patient. The doctor, formerly chief medical officer of a large urban hospital, now found himself clambering over piles of baggage, [...]

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The crisis in Europe mirrors the fall of the Roman Empire

by News Sources 05.25.2012

Focusing on Britain, the historian Michael Wood writes: Rome in the 4th Century had been a great power defended by a huge army. A century later the power and the army had gone. Instead the West was ruled by new barbarian elites, Angles and Saxons, Visigoths and Franks. And nowhere were these changes more dramatic [...]

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Apocalypse fairly soon

by News Sources 05.18.2012

Paul Krugman writes: Suddenly, it has become easy to see how the euro — that grand, flawed experiment in monetary union without political union — could come apart at the seams. We’re not talking about a distant prospect, either. Things could fall apart with stunning speed, in a matter of months, not years. And the [...]

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Depression and democracy

by News Sources 12.12.2011

Paul Krugman writes: It’s time to start calling the current situation what it is: a depression. True, it’s not a full replay of the Great Depression, but that’s cold comfort. Unemployment in both America and Europe remains disastrously high. Leaders and institutions are increasingly discredited. And democratic values are under siege. On that last point, [...]

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The Serpent’s Egg hatchlings in Greece’s postmodern Great Depression

by News Sources 11.21.2011

The Greek economist, Yanis Varoufakis, writes: It will prove George Papandreou’s ugliest legacy: that his last-minute childish maneuvering to maximise his waning hold on power (while negotiating his eviction from the PM’s job), has brought into the new ‘national unity’ government four self-declared racists (some of whom are neo-Fascists and one a neo-Nazi of some [...]

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Debate on austerity and the eurozone

by News Sources 11.19.2011

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Chas Freeman considers the global outlook for 2012

by News Sources 11.19.2011

From a speech by Chas Freeman given in Macau, China, yesterday: Europe used to be boringly predictable, which was good for business. Now bits of it have reverted to being excitingly unreliable, which is bad. Repeated crises have addicted European leaders to summits, where they agree on partial solutions to problems and create new ones, [...]

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The Occupy movements are the realists, not the ruling elites

by News Sources 11.15.2011

John Gray writes: The Occupy movements have been attacked for being impractical visionaries. In fact it is the established political classes of the west that are wedded to utopian thinking, while the protesters are recalling us to the actualities of human experience. Based on economic theories that left out human beings, the global free market [...]

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Greek anti-austerity movement lacks electoral strategy

by News Sources 11.12.2011

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Greece turns to Iranian oil as default fears deter trade

by News Sources 11.11.2011

Reuters reports: Greece is relying on Iran for most of its oil as traders pull the plug on supplies and banks refuse to provide financing for fear that Athens will default on its debt. Traders said Greece has turned to Iran as the supplier of last resort despite rising pressure from Washington and Brussels to [...]

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Inside Story – Italy: Too big to bail out?

by News Sources 11.11.2011

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Legends of the fail

by News Sources 11.11.2011

Paul Krugman writes: This is the way the euro ends — not with a bang but with bunga bunga. Not long ago, European leaders were insisting that Greece could and should stay on the euro while paying its debts in full. Now, with Italy falling off a cliff, it’s hard to see how the euro [...]

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Europe’s glaring democratic deficit

by News Sources 11.09.2011

Larry Elliott writes: Financial markets rallied last week when the Greek prime minister, George Papandreou, announced he was dropping plans for a referendum on the terms of his country’s bailout. Bond dealers liked the idea that the government in Athens could soon be headed by Lucas Papademos, a former vice-president of the European Central Bank. [...]

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Will Greece abandon Eurozone?

by News Sources 11.02.2011

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Turkish president warns European leaders over their role in extremism

by News Sources 09.09.2011

Today’s Zaman reports: Turkish President Abdullah Gül has called on European leaders to stick to values such as democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights, which originated from the continent of Europe, as he warned that populist tendencies among European leaders towards migration triggered the radicalization of immigrant societies. Delivering a speech [...]

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Turkish FM says flotilla issue not just between Israel and Turkey

by News Sources 09.05.2011

Today’s Zaman reports: Firmly opposing the portrayal of the recent escalation of the crisis between Turkey and Israel solely as a bilateral affair which must be resolved between the two countries, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has warned that when dealing with Israel’s lethal 2010 raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, in which nine pro-Palestinian [...]

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Do the Gaddafis hope to take refuge in Israel?

by Paul Woodward 09.02.2011

As Hosni Mubarak approaches the end of his life inside a prison cell in Egypt, he might be having second thoughts about his decision to turn down an offer of asylum that came from Israel a few months ago. The idea that Israel has some affection for Arab tyrants might have something to do with [...]

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Record levels of unemployment for Europe’s youth

by News Sources 08.14.2011

Stefan Steinberg writes: According to the latest figures from the German Statistical Office and Eurostat, youth unemployment across Europe has increased by a staggering 25 percent in the course of the past two and a half years. The current levels of youth unemployment are the highest in Europe since the regular collection of statistics began. [...]

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Italy edges closer to ‘burqa ban’ law

by News Sources 08.04.2011

Al Jazeera reports: An Italian parliamentary commission has approved a draft law that would ban women from wearing veils that cover their faces in public, if passed by parliament in September. The draft approved by the constitutional affairs commission on Tuesday would prohibit women from wearing a burqa, niqab or any other garb that covers [...]

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Europe and the mass movements against austerity policies

by News Sources 07.28.2011

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