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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 »
The Eurozone leaders have completed a new package of measures, 21.7.11, to calm the sovereign debt crisis, led by a new relief fund for Greece. … Read More »
The practice of folks taking leave of their senses, and driving animals in the same direction, has seen a fresh run of injuries at Pamplona in Spain. … Read More »
Australian Casey Stoner on Monday chalked up his third win in a row, to get to the front in this year’s MotoGP championship.
He’d been trailing after getting a third place, and a crash, when he won at Le Mans on 16.5.11. (See EUAustralia Online, “One Queen, a ‘ladies’ man’ and a motorbike rider”, 18.6.11). … Read More »
Squabbling over compensation for farmers has accompanied flailing efforts to trace down the source of Europe’s E. coli attack, with attention focused on the area around Hamburg. … Read More »