EUROPE NEWS AUGUST 24, 2011 As Sarkozy Seeks to Plug Holes in Budget, Heirs and CEOs Say in Open Letter That ‘We Feel We Must Contribute’ By DAVID GAUTHIER-VILLARS Liliane Bettencourt, with her daughter Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers in Paris in 2007. PARIS—France’s richest woman, who recently ran into trouble for allegedly evading taxes, said Tuesday she
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AUGUST 24, 2011 The New Arms Race By STEPHEN FIDLER And ALISTAIR MACDONALD BRUSSELS—The unraveling of Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s regime is a milestone for the European armed forces providing the air support that turned the tide for Libyan rebels, who were on the verge of being overrun only five months ago. Changes in Defense Budgets
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Published August 22, 2011| FoxNews.com After a morning of heavy fighting near Muammar al-Qaddafi’s compound in Tripoli, the Libyan rebels’ top diplomat in London said that only 5 percent of the capital city was still controlled by forces loyal to the Libyan leader, though Qaddafi’s whereabouts remained unknown. Qaddafi’s regime, meanwhile, was crumbling. Libya’s prime
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HOOVER INSTITUTE UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE INTERVIEW BY PETER ROBINSON OF CHARLES MOORE, LONG-TIME BRITISH JOURNALIST This week’s video features Charles Moore, former editor of the UK Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph newspapers and of the Spectator magazine. He is also the authorized biographer of the Right Honorable Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, better known as Margaret Thatcher.
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AUGUST 20, 2011 By VANESSA FUHRMANS BERLIN—German authorities are scrambling to contain and make sense of a surge in car torchings in the nation’s capital that have raised fears that the vandalism spree could escalate into the broader, more dangerous forms of street crime that have recently hit other pockets of Europe. Cars go up
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WASHINGTON POST By George F. Will, Published: August 17 LONDON During the Second World War, a future prime minister, Harold Macmillan, said America is “the new Roman empire and we Britons, like the Greeks of old, must teach them how to make it go.” How goes the tutoring of Rome by Athens? We are in the
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blogs.the-american-interest.comhttp://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/08/18/european-crisis-deepens/ European Crisis Deepens | Via Meadia The bad news just keeps coming. Coming close on the recent revelation that economic growth is slowing faster than expected in France and Germany, British labor figures have disappointed forecasters and it seems that Greece is heading for yet another recession despite optimistic predictions to the contrary. A familiar
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Mark Steyn: Lessons for us from London in flames By MARK STEYN 2011-08-12 11:30:43 The trick in this business is not to be right too early. A week ago I released my new book – the usual doom ‘n’ gloom stuff – and, just as the sensible prudent moderate chaps were about to dismiss it
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AUGUST 13, 2011 Après le Déluge, What? Riots and flash mobs have root causes that government can’t reach. By PEGGY NOONAN The riots in Britain left some Americans shaken. In the affluence of the past 40 years, and with the rise of the jumbo jet, we became a nation of travelers. We have been to
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AUGUST 10, 2011 The Parthenon in Rome A short course in Italian economics. The European Central Bank has now stepped in to shore up Italian bond prices. Yet Europe’s political establishment seems amazed that investors have suddenly soured on Italy’s debt. “It is not as if the fundamentals of the Italian or Spanish economies have
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