Die Raketen, über die der Iran und Nordkorea derzeit verfügen, stellen für die Vereinigten Staaten nach der Einschätzung von Verteidigungsminister Chuck Hagel keine Bedrohung dar.

Das Niederreißen der Statue Saddam Husseins im Jahr 2003 war ein Propagandaevent, inszeniert von Propagandateam der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika

“The sale of gold held by the Central Bank is a matter that concerns exclusively the Board of Directors of the Bank,” Aliki Stylianou told CNA tonight

(29.03.) House President Yiannakis Omirou has said: „It is our duty to disengage Cyprus from the Troika,“ referring to the terms of a bailout agreement for the country with the European Commission, the ECB and IMF.

Omirou expressed the view that Europe must change its direction, noting that this is the message of the people of Cyprus, the people of Greece and the peoples of the European south but also the peoples of the European north.

Kohl: …“Verstehen Sie: Ich bin ein Machtmensch, okay – was heißt eigentlich: Wieso bin ich Machtmensch? Wenn einer Bundeskanzler ist, will etwas durchsetzen, muß er doch ein Machtmensch sein! Und wenn er gescheit ist, dann weiß er: Jetzt ist eine Zeit reif, um etwas durchzusetzen. Und wenn er gescheit ist, dann weiß er: Es gibt Sachen, da muß ich warten. Es ist mein volles Leben: In einem Fall war ich wie ein Diktator, siehe Euro, in einem Fall war ich ein Zauderer, habe alle Probleme ausgesessen. Ist immer noch der gleiche Helmut Kohl, von dem wir reden. Mit Machtmensch hat das nichts zu tun. Der Euro ist ja nur ein Synonym für Europa. Verstehen Sie: Für mich ist die Idee der Einigung Europas nicht irgend eine Sache wie dem Riester seine Rentenversicherung.“

Der frühere Kanzler sagte weiter: “Das politische Leben läuft so: Demokratie hin, Demokratie her, Wahlen hin und her, repräsentative Demokratie kann nur erfolgreich sein, wenn irgendeiner sich hinstellt und sagt: So ist das.” Im Falle des Euro sei er ein Diktator gewesen, in anderen Fällen ein Zauderer, der Probleme ausgesessen habe.

Die komplette Doktorarbeit kann hier heruntergeladen werden

Today, Thursday 11 April 2013, the members of the 5 Star MoVement who signed up by 31 December 2012 and who sent in their digitalised ID documents, have got until 9:00 pm to put forward the name of a person they would like as their candidate for the office of the President of the Republic. After that, on Monday 15 April, there’ll be another round of voting on the top ten candidates to choose the name that will be put forward by the M5S parliamentary group.

Grillo was referring to the hour-long meeting Bersani and Berlusconi held on Tuesday that they said was just „the starting point“ to discuss Italy‘s next president and other issues.

Heavily indebted euro zone nations such as Italy and Portugal could come under pressure to put their bullion reserves to work as a result of plans for Cyprus to sell gold to meet its financing needs.

Zypern hat seine Goldreserven zum Verkauf freigegeben, um damit einen Beitrag zur Rettung des Landes zu leisten. Das berichtet Financial Times am Donnerstag. Das Blatt beruft sich auf ein Dokument, in das es Einsicht erlangt habe.

Each month the Fed buys $85 billion of securities. Cyprus’s central bank hasn’t discussed any plan to sell gold reserves, the Nicosia-based institution said.

Debt sustainability analysis which leaked last night shows that Cyprus‘s contribution to its own financing package has risen from €7bn to €13bn

Under the new plan, which is likely to spark fresh public outrage, Cyprus will be forced to sell €400m of gold reserves, renegotiate the terms of a loan with Russia and „bail-in“ creditors of the Bank of Cyprus, to claw back some of the cost of the rescue.

„Too many fanatical moralists“. To whom is Napolitano referring with these words?

taly sold one-year bills yesterday at the lowest rate since January and paid a record low yield to place three-month debt. Today’s sale was probably helped by 16.7 billion euros of bond redemptions due on April 15.

´There is no risk from Italy´ says outgoing premier

President, 87, has dismissed calls to serve a second term

Centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani said Thursday that there was no danger of his Democratic Party (PD) splitting because of internal divisions over his handling of Italy‘s post-election political deadlock.

After 22 years of leading Greece’s KKE Communist party…

A new high has been recorded in January 2013 with unemployment reaching 27.2%; among youth aged 15-24, the dramatic record is 59.3%. The total number of people without work is shocking 1,348,742.

Negotiations to continue next week

That’s the highest level since the agency began publishing monthly data in 2004.

Portuguese Finance Minister Vitor Gaspar said Wednesday he was going to Dublin to to get official support for Portugal to return to the debt market.

The so-called troika and the European Financial Stability Facility made the recommendation in a joint report before a meeting of European Union finance ministers in Dublin on April 12-13, when further measures to help Ireland and Portugal are to be discussed.

Portugal, as one of the countries in the European Union taken hostage by the Troika (the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission), has been subjected to increasingly harsh austerity policies that have led the country into a recession of historic proportions, the result being mass impoverishment.

Massive social unrest is leading to protest marches in the country

Political parties agree that the institution is in desperate need for change
But exactly how should these reforms take shape?

In tax fraud and corruption case

Global growth is likely to remain tepid this year and central banks should keep their easy monetary policies in place, the head of the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday.

The U.S. funding move is necessary to finalize a historic deal reached by IMF member countries in 2010 that would make China the IMF‘s third-largest voting member.

U.S. President Barack Obama said his budget proposal will reform the tax code so the wealthy cannot “game the system.“

The revolving door between the industry, its regulators and government, including the Fed, has raised eyebrows since the financial crisis, as some critics question if the industry gets off light given its close ties.

The Fed list could provide fuel those critics.

Nach Angaben eines Notenbanksprechers „sieht alles danach aus, dass [die Veröffentlichung] völlig versehentlich erfolgte“.

(10.04.) EP, plenary session of the Union for the Mediterrranean parliamentary assembly (until 12th April).