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The start of the business week on Monday saw impacts of the “Black Friday” lunge at European creditworthiness, by a leading US credit ratings firm.
The company, Standard and Poor’s, down -graded nine members of the 17-member Eurozone group, in its Sovereigns Ratings List, on 13.1.12. … Read More »
Elections this month (17.4.11) in Finland produced another installment in the rise of support for militant groups against continuing immigration.
Posted by Lee Duffield with research by Haydn Rippon. … Read More »
Publishing milestones of the week were the autobiography of Natascha Kampusch in Austria, and more trouble surrounding the memoirs of Tony Blair; BP publishing its apologia in America over the Deepwater Horizon disaster, and the German Chancellor defending the rights of the Danish cartoonist under threat from Islamic groups. … Read More »
Still fielding certain major initiatives – its aid to Pakistan flood victims, a new tilt at peace in the Middle East, and a plan to control criminals operating across borders – the EU announced its annual August shut-down. … Read More »
The Australian Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith, has completed a four-day visit to Europe (14-19.2.10) putting emphasis on multi-national agencies and security agreements. … Read More »
An audience of journalists was treated to a performance, in Salzburg (2.8.09), of two recently discovered pieces by Wolfgang Mozart, as a young child. … Read More »
Distressing crimes, and their consequences were recorded in the month of March in Austria, Germany and Ireland.