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Head over to the Euribor website if you are into really bad record keeping.
The Euribor 360 is:
The Euribor, or Euro Interbank Offered Rate, is the average interest rate at which term deposits are offered between prime banks in the EU wholesale money market or interbank market.[1] Just like the LIBOR serves as a short-term reference rate for ( Read more... )

Just heard on EuroNews something really embarrassing. Euro Commissioner of Integration was questioned on possible Iceland quick admission to EU. He even can't refuse that it is possible next (!) year after Iceland bankruptcy. WHAT a POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION! I am happy for Iceland having friends in EU. WHAT PAIN FOR an UKRAINIAN to hear it in ( Read more... )

So, this year has seen the usual round of arguments between Ukraine and Russia about the price of Natural Gas supplied by Russia.

This year, however, has also seen murky shenanigans that have caused various countries in the eastern portion of the EU to suffer from shortages of gas, because of arguments over gas prices between Russia (the supplier) ( Read more... )

From Deutsche-Welle World   http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,3887147,00.html

As planeloads of European tourists roam London looking for cheap Christmas deals, the Labour government of Gordon Brown is keeping a stiff upper lip over the British pound's relentless slide towards parity with the euro.

"We have never had a policy of targeting the ( Read more... )

Five questions for NATO

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From the London Times:

To some, China's muscular domination of the Olympic medal table is a powerful allegory of the shifting balance of global power. A far better and more literal testimony to the collapse of the West may be seen in the distinctly weak-kneed response to Russian aggression in Georgia by what is still amusingly called the ( Read more... )

Serbia’s next government will aim for quick European Union entry, strategic gas links with Russia, and renewed negotiations over Kosovo, the country’s prime minister-designate said on Monday ( Read more... )

This is semi-old news, but still interesting ( Read more... )

Patients will be able to escape NHS queues by demanding treatment anywhere in the European Union without the prior approval of a doctor, under proposals to guarantee health rights unveiled today in Brussels ( Read more... )