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Daily News Roundup – 8 August 2012

  Europe Standard Chartered shares recover Shares in British bank Standard Chartered have rebounded after their steepest one-day decline in decades.  The crash came as New York’s State Department of Financial Services a...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Europe

“Women are less competent than men as citizens”

[twitter style=”horizontal” source=”@intlpolitical” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button”] Democracy is an ongoing concept which has redefined itself at various times throughout hi...
by Lina Joseph
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THE LAST DAYS OF MARIO – Mario Monti and Italy in Europe: a winning strategy?

[twitter style=”horizontal” source=”intlpolitical” float=”left”][fbshare type=”button” float=”left”] European leaders managed to end the last yet ‘crucial’...
by Mattia Braida
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A new era for the “Front National” in France?

Arriving third in the race with 17.9 per cent of the vote, many people were arguably shocked when it was revealed that over six million French people had voted for far-right candidate Marine Le Pen of the Front National (FN) du...
by Emily Annear
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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...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Economy

Bringing Stability Back to Jamaica’s Finances

Fiscal reform is never fun, even less so when it comes as an eleventh-hour necessity. For Caribbean states especially, “fiscal reform” is hissed in the public sector as the foulest Jamaican bad word. Nowhere does this ri...
by Donovon Kellyman
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Daily News Roundup – 2 July 2012

  Europe Barclays chairman quits after libor scandal  Marcus Agius, the chairman of Barclays plc, has quit the bank today after five and a half years following revelations that some of the bank’s traders tried to manipu...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Daily News Roundup – 11 September 2012

  Europe Spanish Prime Minister rejects bailout conditions Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, speaking in his first television interview since taking office, has said he will not accept outside conditions over a possi...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Latin America

Defining Narco-Terrorism

‘Narco-terrorism’ like the phrase ‘War on Drugs’ is a phrase that, despite being coined several decades ago, has only gained widespread usage in the past few years. Appearing with greater frequency in the media, the ter...
by Harry Booty
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