This was the week that European democracy died

The plan to tackle the eurozone crisis will only render ordinary people more powerless.

Janet Daley Telegraph [UK] 29 Oct 2011

Democracy went down in a blaze of glory last week. Both the German Bundestag and our own House of Commons put up one hell of a fight against the dying of the light. Maybe […]

Bombshell Report Says Eurozone Meeting Was Filled With Despair, German-French Relations Collapsed

Joe Weisenthal Business Insider 10/22/2011

Now, bear in mind that The Telegraph is one of the most anti-Euro papers around, but regardless, this latest dispatch from the meeting of European Finance Ministers happening this weekend sounds horrible.

Just the title Eurozone summit – despair and backbiting in the corridors of power says it all.

The […]

Calling a Shamrock a Shamrock

Howard Rich Rasmussen Reports 11/26/2010

As the European economy grapples with yet another bailout of a bankrupt sovereign state, a storyline is emerging that seeks to frame this latest instance of government interventionism along deliberately disingenuous lines. According to this misleading narrative, Ireland’s abysmal fiscal condition did not come as a result of chronic state […]

Ireland forced to take EU and IMF bail-out package

Bruno Waterfield Telegraph 21 Nov 2010

Ireland has finally been forced to take an economic bail-out from the European Union in a deal designed to save the euro.

After a humiliating week of denying it needed help, the Dublin government succumbed to pressure from other euro zone countries and asked for a “very big” loan.

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