Germany warns US on market bubbles
Financial Times November 21, 2009 Germany’s new finance minister yesterday echoed Chinese warnings that low US interest rates and a weak dollar are raising the threat of fresh global asset price bubbles. more
Year: 2009
Karzai ‘would fall in weeks’ if Nato pulls out
The Guardian November 20, 2009 The Afghan government could fall within weeks if Nato pulled out troops now, David Miliband warned today as he urged British opponents of the war to give the fight to rebuild the country more time. more
EU foreign head dismisses critics
BBC November 20, 2009 Far from the EU choosing world-bestriding figures to carry its ambitions into the halls of power from Washington to Moscow to Beijing, it selected two almost unknowns to fill the new posts created by the Lisbon Treaty. more
Ashdown calls for an urgent rethink of the EU’s Bosnia policy
EuropeanVoice.com November 19, 2009 The European Union should urgently reconsider its policies towards Bosnia and Herzegovina, Paddy Ashdown, a former EU envoy to the country, has said, warning that the country is on a “move towards dissolution”. more
Low-Profile Leaders Chosen for Top European Posts
The New York Times November 19, 2009 BRUSSELS — Leaders of the 27 countries of the European Union on Thursday night chose Herman Van Rompuy, the Belgian prime minister, as the European Union’s first president, and Catherine Ashton of Britain, currently the bloc’s trade commissioner, as its high representative for foreign policy. The vote was […]