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• Mass of Media: Banking crisis in Europe

  Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

  UPDATE 1-ECB’s Nowotny: no systemic banking crisis in Europe Reuters VIENNA, Sept 30 (Reuters) – Europe’s banking sector is not in a systemic crisis and does not need a bailout similar to the one planned in the United States, … Ballmer on banking crisis: No one is safe Register, UK He said: “I have to believe [...]

• Mass of Media: Financial crisis

  Thursday, September 18th, 2008

  A financial crisis happens when some financial institutions or assets suddenly lose a large part of their value. Many financial crises are banking panics, and many recessions coincided with these panics. Other situations that are often called financial crises include stock market crashes and the bursting of other financial bubbles, as well as international phenomena [...]

• Mass of Media: War in Georgia

  Saturday, August 9th, 2008

  Bush says attacks on Georgia “dangerous escalation” Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) – President George W. Bush on Saturday said attacks by Russia on neighboring Georgia outside the war zone of South Ossetia marked a … Georgia proposes cease fire in S Ossetia The Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili proposed Saturday to [...]

• Imagine

  Saturday, August 9th, 2008

  (A video against the war, including the actual war in Ossetia and Abkhazia, Georgia) More at http://www.setthings.com Imagine there’s no Heaven It’s easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die [...]

• The benumbing of the human spirit in Italy

  Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

  Some hours ago, an immigrant just died near the Reggio Calabria city in the Mediterranean waters, because he didn’t know to swim. Tens of Italians just looked at him and did nothing, They called the emergency after the man died, only. (La Repubblica) Some days ago, sunbathers sit next to the bodies of two Gypsy [...]

• Mass of Media: Radovan Karadžić

  Thursday, July 24th, 2008

  Radovan Karadžić (Serbian: Радован Караџић, IPA: [râdovaːn kâraʤiʨ]; born 19 June 1945 in Petnjica, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia) is a former Bosnian Serb politician, poet and psychiatrist who was a fugitive from 1995 until 21 July 2008 after having been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in [...]

• Italy: two immigrants killed each other

  Monday, July 21st, 2008

  Two immigrants were found killed near Rome yesterday, a Romanian and a Poland. One with powerful blows in his head, the other stabbed with a knife in his neck. The Italian police says that it is possible that the two immigrants killed each other. Or, maybe, they were killed by other immigrants. No possibility that [...]

• Italy: Rome starts today fingerprinting the gypsies

  Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

  This is the first time after the World War II when a government initiate an ID action based on racial criteria. During the next 48 hours, Rome’s authorities will fingerprint about 10,000 gypsies, helped by the Italian Red Cross. In accordance with ANSA agency, about one hundred employees of the Red Cross will help the [...]

• The digital Europe – i2010 Initiative

  Sunday, May 18th, 2008

  Preparing Europe’s digital future i2010 Mid-Term Review {SEC(2008) 470} INTRODUCTION Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) continue to be a major driver of economic and social modernisation. Today, businesses in the EU devote 20% of investment to ICTs, and the sector accounts for 26% of overall research expenditure. Moreover, 60% of basic public services are now [...]

• A new world?

  Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

  Is the capitalism able to overcome the actual crisis in the world? I talked some time ago about big changes in the geopolitics and economy due to the global warming and climate change. Now, it seems that the financial crisis and the food crisis make the changes. Is there any connection between the climate change [...]

• Kosovo, a solution for all the European countries with ethnic minorities

  Monday, February 18th, 2008

  In a public declaration right after the proclamation of the independence of Kosovo, the leader of the Hungarian party in Romania (Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania), Marko Bela, said that Kosovo is a precedent, and a solution for all the European countries that have ethnic problems. Marko Bela saluted Kosovo’s independence and asked for [...]

• Kosovo and the Russian dolls, the democracy as the new religion

  Sunday, February 17th, 2008

  Kosovo will proclaim soon, in some hours, its independence. It’s a fact. Kosovo will be the world’s newest state. And it will be recognized by US and most of the European countries, as well as the most other countries. But what if tomorrow, a small area within Kosovo wants to declare its own independence? Will [...]

• Kosovo, the Pandora’s box

  Saturday, February 16th, 2008

  France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, the states of the old USSR… almost all the European countries have provinces in the same situation with the Serbian province Kosovo. The European Union would be a solution. But the independence of the provinces is a solution too. I think that the Kosovo’s independence is less a result of [...]

• Mass of Media: Kosovo

  Friday, February 15th, 2008

  Kosovo moves to calm minority Serbs as it prepares for independence The Canadian Press PRISTINA, Serbia – Kosovo’s prime minister announced on Friday the creation of a government office to handle the concerns of the Serb minority in an attempt … Kosovo breakaway prompts East-West split Times Online, UK Russia warned the West today that [...]

• Sarkozy in Romania: comparison with Basescu

  Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

  Nicolas Sarkozy will visit Romania for one day, on February 4th, to launch a strategic partnership with Romania, the first such partnership with a Central and East European country. The partnership will include a broad range of domain, but it will focus on defense and security. “The goal of the visit is to expand on [...]

• Mass of Media: Nicolas Sarkozy married Carla Bruni

  Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

  Sarkozy-Bruni make it to the altar NDTV.com, India Three months after they met and four months after his divorce, Sarkozy married Bruni in a private civil ceremony conducted by the Mayor of the 8th district … Sarkozy, Bruni Wed EURSOC, UK By EURSOC Two Published: 02 February, 2008 The French press has reported that President [...]

• Romanian gamers complain against Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo WII

  Friday, February 1st, 2008

  The Romanian gaming community is complaining against the discrimination of the manufacturers of the game consoles Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Nintendo WII that, although Romania is member of the European Union, the Romanian gamers do not benefit by the full online services and support for which they paid. They require to be enabled the [...]

• Winter in Dubai

  Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

  Remember, this is in the middle of the desert…. The very HOT desert where temperatures get up to 120 degrees! (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/glume)

• UN report on the world economy

  Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

  The United Nations has published a report on “the world economic situation and perspectives for 2008.” According to the study’s conclusions a slowing is to be expected. It provides an overview of recent global economic performance and short-term prospects for the world economy and of some key global economic policy and development issues. On the [...]

• Carla Bruni denies marriage with Nicolas Sarkozy

  Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

  Very interesting this couple, Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni, I think they will keep the first page of the media long time from now on. And I like the power of love of Nicolas Sarkozy that overcome all the protocols. “He wants to show that even presidents live, love and suffer like ordinary people,” said [...]

• Two neighbors that quarrel on their poverty: Romania and Bulgaria

  Saturday, January 5th, 2008

  Now I am living at the border with Serbia, but in my childhood I was living at the border with Bulgaria. It is true, during the communist era there was not so much visits of the Romanians in Bulgaria or Bulgarians in Romania. Now, a lot of Romanian pass on their way to Turkey or [...]

• My predictions for the new year 2008

  Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

  Due to the global warming with increased effects for this year, the developed states will change their national strategies by taking into account these aspects, and we will see important geopolitical changes. United States will try to overcome the economical crisis by extending its influence in new areas, but it will encounter a much stronger [...]

• Benazir Bhutto killed in a suicide explosion at Rawalpindi

  Thursday, December 27th, 2007

  Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was killed today when a suicide bomb exploded outside Liaquat Bagh, the venue of the rally, Interior Ministry Spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said in a phone interview from Islamabad. “Terrorists are trying to derail the election process,” Interior Ministry Spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said in a phone interview from [...]