Topic: European Union
The stimulus bill is bad enough, then add the mortgage bailout, T.A.R.P. 2 (banking bail out), universal health care, the omnibus budget bill, and social security/Medicare obligations. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reed, wrote this legislative equivalent of a road apple. A good ...
The World Trade Organization, the European Union, and the United States said on Tuesday they were pressing for solutions to concerns China may be exploiting its stranglehold on rare earth metals, crucial in the making of everything from portable phones to wind ...
"An Associated Press review of the latest stimulus reports ? which theWhite House promised would undergo extensive reviews to ensure accuracy? found that more than two-thirds of 14,506 jobs credited tothe recovery act by just one federal office were overstated? because Emanuel, ...
Each week the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) sends to subscribers email alerts called "Take Action Thursday," which tell them about actions they can take to help animals. This week's Take Action Thursday looks at what the Senate has left undone during the ...
Britain will begin capping the number of non-European Union migrants coming into the country to live and work for the first time next month, a Home Office source said on Saturday.Just 24,100 workers will be allowed in between next month and April ...
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovaks went to the polls on Saturday to choose between economic liberals whose reforms led Slovakia into the European Union and the outgoing leftist government, which has taken a tough line on protecting workers.Three final pre-election opinion polls on ...
President Obama came to power amid promises of sweeping reform in energy, healthcare, and financial markets, modeled in many ways after the European social democratic system. The main culprits in Europe's travails are Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain (PIGS). Yet on myriad ...
US Vice President Joe Biden, on the highest-level US visit to Spain since 2001, Saturday paid tribute to the Spanish contingent in Afghanistan as he sought to formally bury years of thorny ties with Madrid."My country is proud and grateful to be ...
US Vice President Joe Biden met Spain's King Juan Carlos on Friday at the start of the highest-level US visit to the country in nine years.Biden travelled to the royal Zarzuela palace after arriving in Madrid, where he was met by Foreign ...
The United States supports Greece's application for aid from the IMF and European Union to solve its debt crisis, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Friday."We support that call for that activation," Gibbs said, adding that the US Treasury Department was "closely ...
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