Greetings from Tyler, You must have heard of the tourists and their guides that were terribly burned while they trekked an active volcano. There’s no way you can read any of the eyewitness accounts of this tragedy without an emotional … Read More
Police detained woman over rainbow-crowned Virgin Mary images Ruling party says religion at threat before EU assembly vote People demonstrate with ‘Free Ela’ posters in Krakow on May 6, 2019. Photographer: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images Human rights activists slammed … Read More
Reuters/Jason Cairnduff Three of Europe’s largest economies — Germany, Italy, and the UK — are either in recession or are on the verge of it, which could spell danger for the eurozone. Germany, Europe’s industrial backbone, is stuttering. The unemployment … Read More
(Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson will go into the final days of the U.K.’s election campaign returning to his key message: that only he can deliver Brexit. Polls show his Conservative Party on course to win a majority, which … Read More
Greetings from Tyler, While the public is drowning in fake news and sober, false impeachment claims, the economy is roaring, to coin a phrase, “like nobody’s ever seen.” We’ll see if the fake news mainstream media will even report this … Read More
Exclusive: Donald Tusk says it would still be better for both sides if UK stayed in EU. Donald Tusk said Brexit was one of the saddest experiences of his five years as European council president. Photograph: Mikhail Palinchak/Ukrinform/Barcroft Media Brexit … Read More
On Friday six European countries issued a bombshell joint statement declaring their intent to join INSTEX, or the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges, a European special-purpose vehicle serving as a ‘SWIFT alternative’ to bypass US sanctions on Iran. Finland, Belgium, … Read More
(Bloomberg) — Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to “oppose steps in NATO” unless the bloc supports his fight against Syrian Kurdish militants, threatening an alliance plan to defend Baltic states against Russian aggression. Ankara has been holding up the … Read More
How has the Leave vote affected the UK economy, ask Swati Dhingra and Thomas Sampson (LSE) in this second of two blogs based on the CEP Election Analysis briefing on Brexit. It summarizes CEP research on how the referendum outcome has affected the UK economy … Read More