Desperate Sarkozy cranks up the anti-immigration rhetoric
Cllr Sanchia Alasia reports on French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s anti-Schengen, pro-protectionism speech last week, as the French election campaign hots up.
Nicolas Sarkozy
Is François Hollande the next president of France?
Jack Storry reports from the speech by Axelle Lemaire building support for François Hollande in London on Tuesday night.
Cameron didn’t sign EU deal because it’s not in the interests of the one per cent
David Cameron’s cowering reliance on the City was exposed for the world to see this morning when he refused to sign the City up to a Financial Transaction Tax.
Eurozone crisis: A threat or a promise from the credit rating agencies?
Ben Fox runs over the latest in the eurozone crisis from Brussels.
Eurozone break up will be a disaster for jobs, growth and the environment
As the eurozone (EZ) lurches from one crisis to the next, the whole structure seems increasingly imperilled by its lack of political cohesion, writes George Irvin.
IMF stitch-up locks out developing countries
Ben Fox reports on the appointment of Christine Lagarde as head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) – at the expense of candidates from other countries.
Afghanistan: All over bar the shouting… and dying
Following Obama’s troop withdrawal announcemnt, a look at the Obama surge’s impact on the strategic situation in Afghanistan and what the end game may look like.
Cameron’s Happiness Index is welcome news for progressives
Simon Kuznets, the Nobel Prize winning economist who helped develop GDP, recognised such flaws when warning the US Congress in 1934: “The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of the national income.”
Is Anglo-French co-operation on nuclear warheads illegal?
Much of the British media has dedicated the last few days to questioning the strategic and fiscal pitfalls/merits of the military and nuclear agreements signed by David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday. However, the legal context to the nuclear part of the agreement raises some interesting questions, and has largely been ignored.
How Ed Miliband can become the Tobin Tax’s greatest leader
A financial transaction tax, more commonly known as the ‘Robin Hood Tax’, is a key tenet to Ed Miliband’s vision – with Sarkozy & Merkel, he can realise it.