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By Andy Borowitz
By Jeff Sharlet
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Luojie, Cagle Cartoons, China Daily, China —
Posted on Sep 20, 2011
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Christo Komarnitski, Cagle Cartoons, Bulgaria —
Posted on Sep 20, 2011
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Petar Pismestrovic, Cagle Cartoons, Kleine Zeitung, Austria —
Posted on Sep 18, 2011
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Hajo de Reijger —
Posted on Sep 15, 2011
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Flickr / infomatique (CC-BY-SA)
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The European Union announced Saturday that it is banning purchases of Syrian oil, a first for Europe, which had thus far avoided targeting Syrian industry as a method to stem the government violence there. (more)
Posted on Sep 3, 2011
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Flickr / World Economic Forum (CC-BY-SA)
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Wednesday in a speech to French ambassadors that he wanted all 27 countries of the European Union to speak with “one voice” in September on the issue of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations General Assembly. (more)
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Luojie, Cagle Cartoons, China Daily, China —
Posted on Aug 22, 2011
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AP / Kostas Tsironis
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President Obama and other world leaders called Thursday for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to resign in the face of the regime’s continued violence against pro-democracy protesters.
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on Aug 15, 2011
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Pavel Constantin, Cagle Cartoons, Romania —
Posted on Aug 1, 2011
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The EU decides to address far-right extremism; education fails to solve poverty and inequality, while Netflix may destroy TV networks. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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Luojie, Cagle Cartoons, China Daily, China —
Posted on Jul 25, 2011
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Martin Sutovec, Slovakia —
Posted on Jul 24, 2011
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Frederick Deligne, Cagle Cartoons, Nice-Matin, France —
Posted on Jul 19, 2011
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico —
Posted on Jul 10, 2011
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Deng Coy Miel, Cagle Cartoons, Singapore —
Posted on Jul 3, 2011
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Washington Examiner —
Posted on Jul 1, 2011
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The Supreme Court overturned California’s ban on violent video games; social networking sites may be effectively enhancing our social lives; and a case of public urination in Oregon forces a city to flush its reservoir. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jun 28, 2011
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Flickr / World Economic Forum
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George Soros issued a dire warning to the European Union recently, stating that fundamental flaws in the design of the euro are preventing economically distressed nations like Greece from getting back on their feet and threatening the very existence of the EU. (more)
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
Posted on Jun 21, 2011
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Olle Johansson, Cagle Cartoons, Sweden —
Posted on Jun 21, 2011
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on Jun 19, 2011
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Christo Komarnitski, Cagle Cartoons, Bulgaria —
Posted on Jun 18, 2011
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Arcadio Esquivel, Cagle Cartoons, La Prensa, Panama —
Posted on Jun 14, 2011
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Olle Johansson, Cagle Cartoons, Sweden —
Posted on Jun 5, 2011
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By William Pfaff — The European intervention in Libya has provided a needed practical demonstration of the European states’ ability to influence world affairs, while at the same time discrediting the expectation that the European Union itself can or will conduct a united foreign and security policy.
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Kap, Cagle Cartoons, Spain —
Posted on Apr 16, 2011
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By William Pfaff — The always-implausible notion that the European Union could have a common foreign policy has been exploded.
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AP / Daniel Roland
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European Union financial officials meeting in Brussels have agreed on the setting up of a permanent bailout fund, even as Portugal reportedly teeters on the precipice of financial collapse.
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Brian Fairrington, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 22, 2011
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Luojie, Cagle Cartoons, China Daily, China —
Posted on Mar 11, 2011
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AP / Daniel Roland
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Despite sounding more like an arcade than a currency oversight organization, European Union leaders have agreed to set up an official bailout fund for eurozone members as soon as 2013, doing “whatever is required” to defend the beleaguered currency.
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Flickr / Mason Masteka (CC-BY-SA)
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Sad but apparently true: Europeans are gaining on Americans. According to a newly released study, more than half of the adult European population is overweight, and their kids aren’t exactly fitness champs either.
Posted on Dec 7, 2010
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
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AP / Peter Morrison
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Although it may sound like a delicious alcoholic beverage rather than a $50 billion rescue of Ireland’s capitalist apparatus, an Irish bailout by the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank is being discussed as the island country reels from debt and failed banks.
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The Irish economy is in quite a state, and according to Labor TD (that’s MP in Irish parlance) Pat Rabbitte, some specific people are to blame for Ireland’s plight. One of them just happened to be right next to him ... (continued)
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on Oct 29, 2010
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AP / Daniel Roland
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Like a well-financed and politically powerful parent, the European Union has agreed to implement tougher rules for euro zone countries that overspend and over-borrow to “deter bad budgetary behavior” that could lead the currency into yet another crisis.
Posted on Oct 29, 2010
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AP / Riccardo De Luca
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An Iranian representative is now included in a league of international envoys from the EU, NATO, the U.S. and elsewhere—aka the International Contact Group on Afghanistan—that is engaging in an ongoing conversation about Afghanistan’s future.
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Flickr / Lars Willem Veldkampf
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The immigration debate in France just got a bit hairier. After the government publicly rounded up and expelled more than 10,000 Roma in this year alone, French authorities have announced they will begin to use a biometric fingerprinting system to discourage those who were expelled from coming back.
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bbc.co.uk
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On Wednesday, tens of thousands of people in Spain, Italy, Greece and other European nations registered their disapproval of their governments’ moves to make them bear the brunt of the financial shenanigans that sent the global economy into a downward spiral two years ago.
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AP / Daniel Roland
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In a fascinating tale of international financial intrigue, the Wall Street Journal reveals how a secret task force of European leaders—dubbed “the group that doesn’t exist”—was formed in 2008 to prevent the collapse of the eurozone, which could have triggered another global economic tsunami.
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bbc.co.uk
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy fired back Thursday at European Union Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding, who had previously let fly about France’s controversial move to dismantle Roma camps and deport occupants thereof to other countries.
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The U.S. economy is still an unholy mess, but someone is doing something right over in Germany, which reported record growth over the three-month period from April through June—the biggest such spike since the once-split nation reunified.
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AP / Hasan Sarbakhshian
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The Iranian government is apparently of the opinion that sanctions are not “an effective tool,” particularly when those sanctions are imposed against Iran from elsewhere in the world, such as the more stringent ones that the European Union just adopted, for example.
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AP / Daniel Roland
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Here’s another bit of news guaranteed to win us friends around the world: On Thursday, EU officials voted in favor of granting U.S. anti-terror investigators access to Europeans’ bank information.
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AP / Virginia Mayo
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Looks like banking executives in EU member nations will have to settle for slightly less ginormous bonuses in the coming year, once the European Parliament puts its official stamp on an agreement to limit banking bonuses and severance packages.
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Flickr / murayi_habimana
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Electoral victories for Dutch-speaking separatists in Belgium have further shaken the fragile unity of the European country. Nationalist movements there continue to gain momentum, and this, analysts say, has pushed Belgium “close to the abyss” of permanent national division.
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Flickr / Partido Socialist
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As the euro continues to tank and European countries scramble to deal with shrinking economic forecasts, Spain has proposed slashing its spending plans by nearly 8 percent next year as it struggles to deal with financial turbulence.
Posted on May 28, 2010
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