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ECB boosts loans to €1 trillion to stop credit crunch and aggravate debt problem

ECB launches cheap loans to banks for them to lend at loan-shark rates

Video: Why do savers distrust the banks? (Simon Rose, Save our Savers)

Portugal set to receive next bailout tranche

Spain to test new EU budget rules

Evans-Pritchard: Irish EU treaty vote threatens chaos but will not stop implementation

Irish Referendum: Europhile fearmongering starts in earnest

Brendan Keenan: Battle lines are drawn for referendum

Reece: Ireland is getting a choice - which is more than other eurozone states

Video: Marta Andreasen on Greece and eurozone bailout (Romanian TV, from 06:29)

Jack Straw discovers EU democratic deficit, says European Parliament must go

ECHR needs major reform, leaked British plan argues

Immigrants 'have to earn £35,000' to settle - from 2016

The IPCC May Have Outlived its Usefulness - An Interview with climatologist Judith Curry

Christopher Tappin makes first court appearance

Briton in shackles in US court as wife tells of 'despair'

19 Signs That America Has Become A Crazy Control Freak Nation Where Almost Everything Is Illegal

Ireland to hold referendum on fiscal union but cannot halt process after Lisbon destroyed the veto

Van Rompuy: National parliaments are EU institutions

German MPs vote to back second bailout for Greece

Persson: German MPs had two days to read a 726-page document on the Greek bailout. How long before they crack?

Greeks get backing from Germany... and another downgrade from S&P

Eurozone 'expected' Greek downgrade

ECB edict leaves Greek banks reliant on EFSF via national 'central bank'

EU's unprecedented £417m punishment for Hungary

Chart: 'America’s Per Capita Government Debt Worse Than Greece'

Growing anti-German, anti-troika feeling on streets of Greece

IMF adds $4.33 billion to Ireland's debt

Spain misses its 2011 budget deficit target by a wide margin

UK warned over Gibraltar employment law

Belarus kicks out EU, Polish ambassadors

AP source: Israel won't warn US before Iran strike

All About Timing: Obama promises Israel use of US bases for Iran attack if it could wait

Ron Paul pulling huge crowds across America with his Message of Freedom

Prudential may move headquarters out of the UK

ECB ready for Round 2 of new-money, cheap bank loans to invest in government bonds at loan-shark rates

A Sneak Preview Of The Tranching & Subordination Of Eurozone Government Bonds

Lloyds considers borrowing money from ECB's emergency fund

G20 leaders insist no more IMF cash unless eurozone boosts its permanent debt fund

Third Greek bail-out not ruled out

German cabinet minister calls for Greek euro exit

Kavanagh: EU causing very hostility it was meant to prevent

Bootle: It may well turn out that we are watching not a Greek but a euro tragedy

Chart: 'America’s Per Capita Government Debt Worse Than Greece'

Riksbank denies IMF data showing Sweden's gold reserves up sharp 18.3 tons in January

Sarkozy rules out EU treaty referendum in France

More For Less: Making the EU’s farm policy work for growth and the environment (New Open Europe briefing, PDF)

EU's unprecedented £417m punishment for Hungary

EU arms trade booming despite crisis

'Chaotic' meeting exposes divisions on Syria

Wyoming House advances doomsday bill to prepare for collapse of federal government

Russia upgrades Syria-based electronic station to warn Iran of US/Israeli attack

They've let the whole country down: Christopher Tappin enters US custody after extradition

Rows over extradition are testing public and political patience

William Dartmouth to attend Budapest court hearing in support of Mark and Jason

The Unavoidable Choice: More EU control over UK criminal justice system, or less

European Court of Justice slams Italy for not vetting migrants before disallowing them in

Dismantling the last vestiges of banking privacy

Greek parliament approves debt swap deal and cuts pensions

Germany under pressure to expand ESM debt fund

German showdown with IMF looms as Bundestag blocks debt funds

EU warns Ireland of harsher Budget than forecast

Eurozone enters 'mild recession' as crash-landing unfolds

Taxpayers Association of Europe attacks ESM proposals

Talking Point: Has health and safety really gone too far?

EU refers ACTA to the ECJ

Bill Carmichael: An EU scandal that never ends

Iceland offers to help EU fisheries reform

Serbia's establishment gets political support for EU bid

EU committee of experts refuse to label Canadian tar-sands oil as more environmentally damaging than traditional oil

'You Pay, We Build, They Destroy': Israel set to demolish EU-funded renewables projects

Fakegate: why the perps should be prosecuted, by Christopher Monckton

Printing money to sink Greece and all the rest - Ron Paul in Oklahoma City, 25.02.2012 (Part 1of3)

Ron Paul quietly amassing an army of delegates while GOP frontrunners spar

Greek deal rests on appetite for more austerity

Britain will contribute £1bn to IMF to burden Greece with more debt

Troika bosses finally stumble upon a deal

David McWilliams: Illusion of Greek bailout is Europe's dirty little secret

Financial Fascism? 'Greeks should revolt against debt slavery!'(RT video)

Persson: Greece's tragedy is still everybody's problem

IMF: No more debt for Greece until Europe boosts its bailout fund

Battle over EU financial firewall threatens to derail Greek bailout

EU row looms over lending power of rescue funds

The blame-it-on-Greece game going strong in Finland

What they say about the ECB's €800bn low-interest facility for banks

Buyers of worthless debt keep European banks happy

Ben Chu: Only optimists or Eurocrats believe the crisis is resolved

Evans-Pritchard: Greek debt accord hostage to political passions

Spain barter economy wins followers in grip of crisis

Britain, Sweden and Netherlands refuse to sign off EU accounts

EU bureaucrats' pay rises condemned

Russia Says EU Carbon Trading Rules for Foreign Airlines Are ‘Premature’

The European Parliament's multi-million euro art collection

Europe needs more migration to boost growth, says David Cameron and allies

Ban smoking in beer gardens to stop social smokers from lighting up, experts say

Strauss-Kahn arrested by French police for ‘complicity in pimping’ after he admits attending sex parties all over the world

Virginia House Passes NDAA-Nullifying Bill; Other States Join Fight

US Rejects Karzai's Demand to End Raids

Saudi-backed group mass on Syria border

Eurozone agrees €130bn bailout for Greece

Eurozone leaders at odds over Greek deal

Eurogroup statement

Europe Reaches a Greek Deal

ECB Government Bond-Buying Program Grinds to a Halt

A country in decay: Greece's youth pay bitter price for the wisdom of their elders

Europe needs more migration to boost growth, says David Cameron and allies

David Cameron signs up Spain and Italy to tackle 'crisis of growth'

EU faces multiple trade wars defending green policies

Stronger budgetary surveillance laws up for agreement

Eurozone ministers to decide on Greek bail-out

Europe Faces Larger Bill for Greece

Germany drawing up plans for Greece to leave the euro

Latest PSI Terms Leaked; Imply Greek Redefault Within 2 Years

Ken Rogoff: Greece Should Be Given A "Sabbatical From The Euro" As Kicking The PIIGS Can Will Just Drag Germany Down

Hundreds of thousands march in Spain against reforms

Booker: The European project is splitting apart at the very core

Brussels adds to UK credit easing woes

MEPs vote to 'tighten their belts'

Iran threatens to widen oil embargo

EU pays price for oil sanctions on Iran

As Everything Disconnects And Everything Is Soaring, Morgan Stanley Issues A Warning

Consequences To Expect If The U.S. Invades Iran

EU executive to analyse member states economies towards more EU control

Ministers step up fight to protect City from EU trading shake-up

Eurozone ministers postpone Greek deal

Greek conservative leader to commit to EU/IMF bailout terms

Greek recession is near to entering its fifth straight year

'Who runs Greece? Bankers who pit poor vs poor' (RT video)

EU to punish Spain for deficits, inaction

Spanish farmers protest over EU-Morocco trade deal

Spanish village goes back to peseta: Residents turn to old money they'd held on to in case the euro folded

China to step up role in euro debt crisis

Eurobarometer: Corruption on the rise?

'European project has gone too far and too fast,' says Slovak Parliament former speaker

Bulgaria postpones ACTA ratification

Airlines set to win carbon credits from biofuel flights

Judge Napolitano: Final Word on the Last Episode of Freedom Watch

NC preschooler’s “unhealthy” lunch replaced with cafeteria nuggets
EC rules put savings, companies and jobs at risk, business leaders warn

Huge threats to jobs in EU pension shake-up

Moody's cuts Italy and Spain, warns France and UK

Britain could be stripped of AAA credit rating within a year

Athens mayhem raises fears of Greek social explosion

Tens of thousands in violent clashes in Athens (video)

Commission warns Greece over lack of consensus

Finland to sign collateral deal on Greek bail-out

Greece must respect loan conditions to be in eurozone, says Luxembourg’s Finance Minister

Merkel rules out extension of EU-IMF programme for Greece

Persson: Democracy and transparency remain the biggest victims of the euro crisis

Lilico: Greece won’t see a cent of the great bail-out

Warner: Greece faces death by a thousand cuts unless it leaves the euro

Kesidou: Greece should cut its losses and exit now

'Greece doomed, economy total farce & fiction!' - Patrick Young of DV Advisors (RT video)

Hungary faces EU deadline over loan package

Wind industry's extensive lobbying to preserve subsidies and defeat local resistance to wind turbines

George F. Will: Obama has stolen GOP advantage on national security

Bison Messink: Why GOP should listen to Ron Paul on foreign policy

EU countries want 'UN peacekeepers' in Syria

Greek MPs back crucial austerity deal

Greek vote 'crucial step' for second bail-out, says EU commissioner

Greek MPs warned of catastrophe as Athens erupts in violence

The First Dominoes: Greece, Reality, And Cascading Default

Video: Chaos reigns as Greeks vote to avoid 'disaster'

Persson: For Greece this is only be the beginning

City attacks 'flawed' EC analysis of transaction tax merits

Financial Transaction Tax is unworkable: the letter in full

EU financial transaction tax would cost taxpayers €200bn a year - Marta Andreasen

EU Taxation Commisoner defends EU-wide financial transactions tax

EU Commssion bloated and overpriced but will not make cuts

ECB chief Draghi says he could transfer Greek losses to taxpayer-funded bailout fund

Any debt haircut for Athens won't extend to Ireland, insists Draghi

EU agrees new rules on 'shady' derivatives

How 31 banks plan to fill a £96bn hole in their balance sheets without anyone feeling the pinch

Parties prepare to debate terms of Greece's new bailout

Eurogroup to discuss Greek austerity deal

Greeks approve 'tombstone' austerity deal with troika

Six days for Greece to secure bail-out

After months of talks, Greeks told their cuts still don't go far enough

Greeks to strike over tough new austerity measures

Italy's Monti says IMF control would ensure both austerity and EU growth

Evans-Pritchard writes about IMF-ECB games towards the euro crash-landing project

EU digital agenda commissioner threatens sanctions over Hungary's media-smeared media laws

EU fisheries policy has squandered £1.4bn

Now EU chief demands £1bn more from Britain in new funding bungle

Godfrey Bloom calls for Britain to recognise the state of Somaliland

Iran sends toy drone to Obama

Pakistan to support Iran against Israel?

Militias are now running Libya as chaos grows

Nato Death Toll in Libya 'Cannot be Counted'

Britain could be hit with additional £1 billion demand for EU payments

Nigel Farage during a Facebook chat, Wednesday 8th February

Euro zone rescue fund eyes February debt sale

Athens talks break off over pensions

Greek Finance Minister Heads to Brussels as Loan Talks Stall

Germany Is Discussing Plan for Greek Bailout Votes Next Week, Meister Says

Eurozone: A Partial Deal on the Greek Debt

Greece: 'There's no more left to cut'

Irish finance minister: We won't ask for bond haircut, even if Greece gets one

All countries will not be equal under fiscal treaty's measures

France warned deficit targets off without more cuts

Sarkozy's ex-finance minister charged with corruption after taking cash from France's richest woman

Greek MPs back crucial austerity deal

Greek vote 'crucial step' for second bail-out, says EU commissioner

Greek MPs warned of catastrophe as Athens erupts in violence

The First Dominoes: Greece, Reality, And Cascading Default

Video: Chaos reigns as Greeks vote to avoid 'disaster'

Persson: For Greece this is only be the beginning

City attacks 'flawed' EC analysis of transaction tax merits

Financial Transaction Tax is unworkable: the letter in full

EU financial transaction tax would cost taxpayers €200bn a year - Marta Andreasen

McKinstry: This human rights fiasco needs to be brought to an end

British businessman's extradition appeal rejected (includes comments by Nigel Farage)

Sham Arab Spring: EU influence as planned

Republicans see need to give Ron Paul a voice

EU plan to slap VAT on food

Coalition MPs in bid to find common agenda on European policy

UK finance chiefs fear euro break-up, says Deloitte

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: 2012 could be the year Germany lets the euro die

Not so europhoric now: How the BBC has changed its tune after ten years of the single currency

Monti calls for more eurozone bailout debt

Spain Scrambles to Contain Budget Deficit

Greek elections pushed back to April

Greece will leave euro if second bailout fails, says Kapsis

The Bluffing Resumes: Greece Warns Will Leave Eurozone If Second Bailout Not Secured

Greek central banker says return to drachma would be hell

Greek tax crackdown official accused of failing to collect fines

Eurozone is closer to break-up, warns Standard Chartered's Peter Sands

Eurozone collapse 'starts this year' says CEBR

'Bailout' means national budgets will be pre-ordained

For Europe, Bad to Worse

New Hurdles Loom in Euro Crisis

Germany wants new European Union growth fund: Source

SPIEGEL Interviews Ex-German High Court Judge: 'It Is a Mistake To Pursue a United States of Europe'

Hungarian leader accused of 'dictatorship' over new constitution

Fat cats cream off green fund millions

EU green levy 'will add £130 to the cost of a family holiday'

Doomsayers defied: Christopher Monckton puts another spoke in the wheel of the climate control and global warming debate

Report: Iran tells departed US carrier to ‘stay out’ of Persian Gulf’

Obama's U-turn on Guantanamo seals fate of lone Briton

Iowa caucuses: Why does Ron Paul inspire such devotion? (BBC NEWS)

Ron Paul “We Don’t Need A Patriot Act!”

"Iowa's Choice: Liberty or Death (Ron Paul 2012 Rap Song by Smiley Chris)

G. Edward Griffin: The Collectivist Conspiracy (video)

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EU to ban our beaches: One in ten British resorts could fail tough new safety tests

Ireland seeks leeway on EU emissions targets

Catalan report casts doubt on an accession veto by Spain

Europe's banks prepare for ECB tests with new provisions

IMF weighs removing U.S. veto over Congress delay

BRICS countries to set up their own IMF

European Union: From Economic Community to Alliance of Warmongers

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Putin to Obama: Use your influence to prevent bloodshed in Ukraine (RT)

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