World News Project » European Sovereign Debt Crisis (2010- ) http://worldnewsproject.org Everything You Need to Know About What's Happening in the World Sun, 26 May 2013 01:02:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Lens Blog: Angelos Tzortzinis’s Photos of Growing Desperation in Greece http://worldnewsproject.org/1248205/lens-blog-angelos-tzortziniss-photos-of-growing-desperation-in-greece/ http://worldnewsproject.org/1248205/lens-blog-angelos-tzortziniss-photos-of-growing-desperation-in-greece/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 17:12:34 +0000 By LIZ ALDERMAN http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/societal-ills-spike-in-crisis-stricken-greece/ The perils of a drawn-out debt crisis are imprinted on Greece’s younger population, whose unemployment numbers are soaring, and who are selling their bodies for money and turning to a dangerous, cheap new street drug for escape.
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]]> http://worldnewsproject.org/1248205/lens-blog-angelos-tzortziniss-photos-of-growing-desperation-in-greece/feed/ 0 Swiss Banking Secrecy Under Pressure From Europe http://worldnewsproject.org/1251733/swiss-banking-secrecy-under-pressure-from-europe/ http://worldnewsproject.org/1251733/swiss-banking-secrecy-under-pressure-from-europe/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 01:52:11 +0000 By RAPHAEL MINDER http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/business/global/swiss-banking-secrecy-under-pressure-from-europe.html European Union officials, having won concessions from bloc members Luxembourg and Austria over banking rules, are expected to turn their focus to Switzerland.
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]]> http://worldnewsproject.org/1251733/swiss-banking-secrecy-under-pressure-from-europe/feed/ 0 German Social Democrats Celebrate Anniversary http://worldnewsproject.org/1251626/german-social-democrats-celebrate-anniversary/ http://worldnewsproject.org/1251626/german-social-democrats-celebrate-anniversary/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 00:32:08 +0000 By MELISSA EDDY http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/world/europe/german-social-democrats-celebrate-anniversary.html The Social Democratic Party of Germany has a storied past, but a cloudy future, with polls showing it trailing behind the center-right Christian Democratic Union.
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]]> http://worldnewsproject.org/1251626/german-social-democrats-celebrate-anniversary/feed/ 0 European Commission Tables Olive Oil Rule http://worldnewsproject.org/1251512/european-commission-tables-olive-oil-rule/ http://worldnewsproject.org/1251512/european-commission-tables-olive-oil-rule/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 23:47:29 +0000 By JAMES KANTER http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/world/europe/european-commission-tables-olive-oil-rule.html A plan by the European Commission to bar restaurants from serving olive oil in cruets or dipping bowls was rescinded after some members expressed outrage.
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]]> http://worldnewsproject.org/1251512/european-commission-tables-olive-oil-rule/feed/ 0 Germany Works to Curb European Youth Unemployment http://worldnewsproject.org/1248603/germany-works-to-curb-european-youth-unemployment/ http://worldnewsproject.org/1248603/germany-works-to-curb-european-youth-unemployment/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 18:54:41 +0000 By MELISSA EDDY http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/business/global/germany-works-to-curb-eu-youth-unemployment.html The German finance and labor ministers signed agreements with their counterparts in Portugal and Spain this week, hoping to get young people into jobs.
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]]> http://worldnewsproject.org/1246502/in-europe-a-fed-president-urges-quantitative-easing/feed/ 0 The Saturday Profile: Olli Rehn Tries to Shed ‘Austerity’ Label http://worldnewsproject.org/1236296/the-saturday-profile-olli-rehn-tries-to-shed-austerity-label/ http://worldnewsproject.org/1236296/the-saturday-profile-olli-rehn-tries-to-shed-austerity-label/#comments Sat, 18 May 2013 01:34:12 +0000 By ANDREW HIGGINS and JAMES KANTER http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/18/world/europe/europe-economist-rehn-rejects-austerity-label.html Olli Rehn, the European Union’s top economist and a focus of anger across Europe against harsh belt-tightening policies, says he is not a doctrinaire adherent to austerity measures.
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