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Who is Olli Rehn?

Tough love, harsh truths, austerity cuts – it’s all in a day’s work for the European Commission's ‘archangel of fiscal sobriety’.

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NI 468 - Fracking - the gathering storm - December, 2013
The aftermath: In 2011 Gianluca Casseri, an extreme rightwinger, killed two Senegalese vendors in a Florence market.LaPresse/AP

Europe points the finger of blame

Migrants have become the scapegoats in financially straitened times, reports Amy Hall.

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NI 465 - How the war on pirates became big business - September, 2013
‘Hands up! It’s a robbery,’ chant students and teachers at the police during a march in Malaga against the Spanish government’s  educational spending cuts.Reuters/Jon Nazca

Debt, austerity, devastation: it’s Europe’s turn

The austerity prescription fattens the creditors and punishes the innocent. Susan George laments a leadership subservient to the desires of finance.

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NI 464 - Debt - a global scam - July, 2013
India 1973; New York City 1973

The new Europe and the third world - Roy Jenkins

Taking up the main themes of his Edinburgh speech on "The Challenge of World Poverty" Roy Jenkins writes on the new European context of that challenge and calls on the enlarged nine-nation community to take the lead in introducing new policies which will work in the best interests of both the Third World and the European Community itself.

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NI 1 - World food crisis - March, 1973

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Commodities - the pitfalls of resource wealth March, 2014
Fracking - the gathering storm December, 2013
Fracking - the gathering storm December, 2013
Where have all the girls gone? October, 2013
How the war on pirates became big business September, 2013
Debt - a global scam July, 2013
World food crisis March, 1973
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