archive 14·04·2009

agoraspecial

• Cristiana Muscardini on Europe and informing its citizens

  The President of the Union for Europe of the Nations takes a close look at the information deficit. 14/04/09 17:52 CET

• Martin Schulz on political Europe

  The President of the European Socialists stresses the democratic dimension of a non-federal process… 14/04/09 17:52 CET

• Graham Watson on Europe and euroscepticism

  The President of the European Liberal Democrats with a round-up of accomplishments threatened by… 14/04/09 17:52 CET

• Martin Schulz on social Europe

  The President of the European Socialists sheds light on Europe’s recent economic history. 14/04/09 17:52 CET

• Francis Wurtz on social and economic Europe

  The President of the United European Left/Nordic Green Left stresses there is a contradiction… 14/04/09 17:52 CET

cinema

• Japan’s animation film

  After four years of drawing his characters by hand, Hayao Miyazaki one of Japan’s greatest… 14/04/09 18:24 CET

• New French film explores renewal

  “Villa Amalia” filmed in Italy, is based on the novel by French Author Pascal Quingard. It stars… 14/04/09 18:23 CET

corporate

• German Woolworth insolvent

  The recession has claimed another retailer. The Woolworth chain in Germany and Austria has… 14/04/09 19:33 CET

• Good news from Goldman Sachs

  Goldman Sachs has announced a much higher-than-expected first-quarter profit of 1.66 billion… 14/04/09 19:31 CET

• Philips loss spurs faster restructuring

  Europe’s biggest consumer electronics producer Philips is to speed up its restructuring after… 14/04/09 19:31 CET

economy

• Obama touts economic progress

  Offering an optimistic assessment of efforts to revive the US economy but also warning of continued… 14/04/09 19:48 CET

• More stimulus for Spain

  Spain’s shrinking economy could get more stimulus money. One week after he dismissed Pedro… 14/04/09 19:31 CET

europa

• UK warned over Phorm, Internet

  An Internet tracking company called Phorm has got Britain into legal hot water. The European… 14/04/09 19:50 CET

hi-tech

• New industrial inventions are greener

  French and Italian scientists are researching a new cement which they say could absorb up to 80… 14/04/09 18:24 CET

le mag

• Ways of seeing

  A modern art exhibition at the Champs Elysees in Paris makes spectators take a serious look at the… 14/04/09 18:23 CET

markets

• Tuesday 14th April

  European shares finished up one percent. They had been higher – at their best in two months -… 14/04/09 19:34 CET

world news

• US embargo action evidence of “loosening” attitude towards Cuba

  Political change has been underway for a while now in Cuba. The first tangible sign of a… 14/04/09 19:59 CET

• Germany joins GMO maize ban

  Germany has banned the only type of genetically-modified crop grown there, the highly… 14/04/09 19:50 CET

• Hungary’s new Prime Minister appoints cabinet

  Hungary’s new Prime Minister has wasted no time in getting down to business, and has already named… 14/04/09 19:10 CET

• Saakashvili blames Russia for anti-govt protests

  There has been a sixth day of anti-government protests in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, with… 14/04/09 19:09 CET

• Abducted toddler returns to France

  A three-year-old French girl repeatedly seized by her warring parents has returned to France with… 14/04/09 18:52 CET

• Protest leaders arrested as Thailand unrest ends

  The main leaders of the anti-government protestors in Thailand have been arrested as the recent… 14/04/09 18:51 CET

• Castro: US sanctions easing is not enough

  The father of modern Cuba, Fidel Castro, has vowed that the communist-led island will not beg to… 14/04/09 18:04 CET

• Georgian protestors’ new pitch to oust Saakashvili

  Protestors who want Georgia’s leader Mikheil Saakashvili to resign have set up camp outside the… 14/04/09 13:50 CET

• Pakistan adopts sharia law deal

  In a bid to halt violence, Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari has signed a bill imposing strict… 14/04/09 13:48 CET

• Thai protests come to an end

  Thai anti-government demonstrators camped around Bangkok Government House have started packing up… 14/04/09 13:47 CET

• Castro’s cool on US Cuba concessions

  Cuba’s Fidel Castro has responded to America’s partial lifting of its embargo, refusing to accept… 14/04/09 13:47 CET

• Hungary’s new PM ready to act as economy shrinks

  Tackling the worst economic mess in almost two decades is the challenge confronting the man set to… 14/04/09 11:34 CET

• Army gains control of Thai capital

  Overnight security forces tightened their grip on Bangkok cracking down on the remaining areas of… 14/04/09 10:04 CET

• Thai protests come to an end

  Thai anti-government demonstrators camped around Bangkok Government House have started breaking up… 14/04/09 08:04 CET

• Tense stand-off in Thailand after deadly violence

  After a day of violence in which two people died, all was calm at Government House in Bangkok early… 14/04/09 07:58 CET

• New Hungary PM takes over a nation in crisis

  Reversing Hungary’s worst economic decline in almost two decades is the sizeable task facing the… 14/04/09 07:58 CET

• Obama opens crack in US embargo against Cuba

  Cubans living in the US will soon be able to visit the island more frequently after the White House… 14/04/09 07:58 CET

• Strong aftershock in quake-hit central Italy

  A stong aftershock has hit central Italy where thousands remain under canvas after a devastating… 14/04/09 07:58 CET

• North Korea says will restart nuclear arms plant

  North Korea has warned it will boycott talks on ending its nuclear weapons programme, describing… 14/04/09 07:58 CET

• US music producer Spector convicted of murder

  Legendary American music producer Phil Spector has been found guilty of murdering an actress at his… 14/04/09 07:58 CET

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