http://www.leap2020.eu fr 2010-02-09T14:09:26+01:00 48.8351898 2.3866701 tag:www.leap2020.eu,2010:rss-1873143 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:46:00 +0100 fr China Daily Chinese premier Wen Jiabao Monday urged China and Japan to strengthen exchange and cooperation to boost mutual understanding and trust.

Wen made the remarks while meeting with members of the fifth 21st Century Committee for China-Japan Friendship. The committee, an advisory panel to both nations' governments, convened a meeting in Beijing on Sunday to discuss various aspects of China-Japan relations and to provide suggestions to the two governments...

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]]> http://www.leap2020.eu/notes/China-to-strengthen-co-op-with-Japan-to-boost-mutual-understanding_b1873143.html tag:www.leap2020.eu,2010:rss-1873178 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:06:00 +0100 fr Times FINANCE ministers and officials from the G7 countries, meeting in Canada yesterday, insisted there would be a “European” solution to the problems affecting Greece, Portugal and Spain and no need for an IMF rescue.

“We told our partners we had to solve the problem ourselves,” said Jean-Claude Juncker, chairman of the Eurogroup of finance ministers. The difficulties in Greece extended to Portugal and Spain last week, with credit spreads widening sharply, provoking a plunge in local stock markets...

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]]> http://www.leap2020.eu/notes/G7-Europe-must-rescue-Greece_b1873178.html tag:www.leap2020.eu,2010:rss-1873126 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:39:00 +0100 fr New York Times In many ways, Barack Obama has taken a more cold-eyed approach to foreign affairs than George W. Bush. He’s emphasized realism over human rights, negotiation over regime change, the national interest over the promotion of democracy.

But there’s been one great exception to this realpolitik revival: the realm of nuclear strategy...

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]]> http://www.leap2020.eu/notes/The-Dream-of-Zero_b1873126.html tag:www.leap2020.eu,2010:rss-1863830 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:48:00 +0100 fr Der Spiegel Europe is losing its patience with Greece and has ordered a strict fiscal austerity program for the euro zone member. Monetary Affairs Commissioner Almunia is also demanding frequent reporting from Athens. But the response isn't enough -- Greece is in deep trouble and the threat to the euro is too great not to act.

The European Union took steps Wednesday to rein in the fiscal chaos that has brought Athens to the brink of financial disaster in recent months. Leaders of EU member states agreed at a summit in December that Athens should be left to its own devices to deal with its deficit crisis, but the European Commission moved this week to invervene to fix Greece's fiscal mess out of fear it could spiral into a systemic crisis for the euro...

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]]> http://www.leap2020.eu/notes/Brussels-Intervenes-to-Slow-Greece-s-Plunge_b1863830.html tag:www.leap2020.eu,2010:rss-1863819 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:42:00 +0100 fr Bloomberg Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, will consider Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection along with tax increases and asset sales as options to address $68 million in debt service payments due this year, the chairwoman of a City Council committee said last night.

Every option, including tax and fee increases, bankruptcy and a state takeover through Pennsylvania’s Act 47 municipal oversight program will be considered, said Susan Brown-Wilson, chairwoman of the Budget and Finance Committee, which began a week of hearings last night to consider a 2010 spending plan...

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]]> http://www.leap2020.eu/notes/Pennsylvania-Capital-Harrisburg-Has-Bankruptcy-Option_b1863819.html tag:www.leap2020.eu,2010:rss-1864743 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:51:00 +0100 fr New York Times Just as America’s recession begins to ebb, trouble is brewing in Europe that may prolong a downturn on the Continent and ricochet through the global economy as it struggles toward a recovery.

A rout in stock markets that began in Europe spread to Wall Street on Thursday and around the globe to Asia on Friday, amid fears that Europe may be the world’s next financial flashpoint. Pressure has been mounting across the Atlantic as Greece, Portugal and a handful of struggling countries that use the euro scramble to pay off mountains of debt accumulated from years of profligate spending...

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]]> http://www.leap2020.eu/notes/Investors-Fear-Europe-s-Woes-May-Extend-Global-Slump_b1864743.html tag:www.leap2020.eu,2010:rss-1862530 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:52:00 +0100 fr New York Times The soaring glass and iron Siemens factory here opened almost exactly a century ago. At first, it churned out electricity turbines, then munitions during World War II before being looted by the Soviets, which required it to be rebuilt at the dawn of the cold war.

A Siemens factory in Berlin for manufacturing turbines. The company spent 500 million euros to develop the new turbines as part of a push into green technology.

Today, it is manufacturing turbines again — except these models are among the most advanced in the world, each one able to power all the homes in this city of three million...

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]]> http://www.leap2020.eu/notes/Europeans-Revitalize-Plants-to-Save-Jobs_b1862530.html tag:www.leap2020.eu,2010:rss-1863828 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:47:00 +0100 fr Money&Markets The next contagion is beginning to spread around the globe.

It is unexpected on Wall Street, misunderstood in Washington — and very dangerous.

It could sabotage the plans of the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and many of their counterparts overseas.

It is …

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]]> http://www.leap2020.eu/notes/The-Next-Contagion_b1863828.html tag:www.leap2020.eu,2010:rss-1863826 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:46:00 +0100 fr Merk The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee (FOMC) is sticking to its course for phasing out the additional purchases of Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS). Notably however, in its statement released January 27th, reference to an improving housing market was omitted after recent bad news about the sector.

The Fed rarely puts much weight on a month’s worth of data, be they good or bad; few have ever accused the Fed of being “ahead of the curve”. Indeed, there was one dissenting vote, Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig, who argued the Fed should no longer commit to “exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period”...

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]]> http://www.leap2020.eu/notes/What-s-next-for-the-Dollar_b1863826.html tag:www.leap2020.eu,2010:rss-1854271 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:14:00 +0100 fr Newropeans Le besoin de démocratie en Europe est plus fort que jamais. Les forces anti-démocratiques tentent de réduire nos droits, de refuser aux peuples le choix et de maintenir des élites corrompues au pouvoir dans nos pays et sur notre continent, sur fond de crise mondiale d’une ampleur historique.

Meetup "Les amis de Beppe Grillo à Paris" et Newropeans organisent une conférence débat samedi 6 février 2010 autour de Beppe Grillo de passage à Paris dans le cadre de sa tournée européenne, afin d’informer le public sur ces carences démocratiques grandissantes en Italie et dans l’Union européenne et comment les forces citoyennes s’organisent pour réagir. Cette conférence réunira également Franck Biancheri, Président de Newropeans, Marco Travaglio, journaliste a ’Il Fatto’, Barbara Spinelli...

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