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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 »
The Australian government has taken over ownership of a former British amphibious warfare ship, Largs Bay, as first replacement for the flotilla of support vessels now passing out of service.
The ship is to be re-named HMAS Choules, in honour of the late, former Chief Petty Officer Claude Choules, who died in Perth last May, at 110 – thought to have been the last survivor of World War 1. … Read More »
Sunday 25.9.11 saw the last bullfight in a major region of Spain, by act of parliament – some more appeals still to come. … Read More »
The European Union has marked the “nine-eleven” anniversary in America, reviewing its own counter-terrorism measures and affirming opposition to all acts of terror – “be it right or left wing extremist, separatist, or Al Qaeda-related terrorism.” … Read More »
The Greenpeace organisation i n Europe has issued a rejoinder to urgent moves by the European Union to conserve stocks of fish, saying it needs to target large-scale industrial fishing first, and implement much tougher quotas.
It describes the European fleet as a major offender in over-fishing, well beyond its home waters.
The business week that ended on Friday (5.8.11) saw stock markets slump, the European debt crisis getting worse, and widespread fears of a failure of economic recovery on both sides of the Atlantic. … Read More »
The split in the American Republican Party, deadlocking efforts to lift the government debt payments ceiling, and prevent any default, fed into global financial tensions at the end of July.
In the climate of economic insecurity, the Spanish government yielded to pressure and called an early election. … Read More »