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Pro-austerity VVD’s victory in Dutch elections hides the real winners of last night’s poll – a social democratic Europe
With over 96% of votes counted, the result of yesterday’s Dutch election sees Mark Rutte, leader of the right-wing Liberals (VVD), set to stay as Prime Minister. But the closely fought election left his party with only two mo...
Daily News Roundup – 13 September 2012
Asia North Korea refuses aid from South North Korea has refused to accept food aid from Seoul just weeks after Pyongyang appealed to the United Nations for aid following a series of heavy flooding. It highlights the tensions be...
Doing the Democratic Math
When the apartheid state security apparatus unleashed its violence in Sharpeville in 1960, sixty-nine people were left dead. It was a traumatising episode in the struggle for black rights and racial equality in South Africa. Ye...
National Security’s Cameo
Having been cast to the wayside in a way that it hadn’t been during the previous two presidential elections, eleven years after the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001, the topics of National Security and Terrorism have ...
Daily News Roundup – 12 September 2012
Europe German court backs ESM bailout fund Germany’s Constitutional Court has rejected calls to block the permanent eurozone rescue fund, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), but has imposed conditions including a c...
Jerusalem: a city at war
President Obama and the US Democratic Convention took the unprecedented step of recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. This comes in the aftermath of the racist anti-Palestinian statements by the Republican candidate M...
