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Europe Drafts Law To Stop Filesharers From Accessing Web - French president seeks three-strikes-and-you're-out law for illegal filesharing (broadbandreports.com)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:13:24 GMT

Individual regions throughout Europe have been working on ways to cut back the amount of illegal P2P filesharing that takes place. The UK and France have both explored three-strikes-and-you re-out laws that would permanently disconnect the broadband accounts of people who engage in illegal filesharing. French president Nicolas Sarkozy who just took over the European Union presidency...

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World Briefing | Europe: Poland: U.S. Defense Aid Rejected (DATA news)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:30:00 GMT

Poland rejected as insufficient an American offer to enhance its air defenses in return for basing a missile-shield complex on its territory.

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WoW Moviewatch: Stealth legislation that could affect Europe on Monday (WOW Insider)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:10:39 GMT

Filed under: Machinima , WoW Moviewatch If you live in Europe, you should be really concerned right about now. A small group of MEPs are trying to sneak in a law that could punish you even if you're innocent. When it goes through, if anyone in your household has been determined to be file-sharing by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) three times , they'll blacklist your IP for life ! There's...

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Europe is Obamaland (Burning Cane)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:21:00 GMT

Europe is Obamaland: Senator's Remarkable Popularity Transcends Borders Eric Margolis July 4, 2008 Huffington Post "Obama Takes Europe by Storm," ABC News.com proclaimed earlier this year. The International Herald Tribune was more understated when it ran a headline that confirmed the inevitable: "Obama grabs the spotlight in Europe, too." And this is only the beginning. The president...

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Islam In Europe Week In Review (Markedmanner Blog)

noreply@blogger.com (markedmanner) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:56:00 GMT

Visit Islam In Europe for the full stories. Here are the highlights. * Tahira Bibi, a Danish-Pakistani woman living in Pakistan, was shot dead by her brother in law. The woman's family accuses the husband, who lives in Denmark, of instigating the murder. A close friend, however, says the couple had a good relationship and spoke several times a day. She also says Tahira kept up with Danish news...

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Which Has More Islamist Terrorism, Europe or America? By Daniel Pipes (USA Partisan)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:54:00 GMT

"Since 9/11, there have been over 2,300 arrests connected to Islamist terrorism in Europe in contrast to about 60 in the United States." Thus writes Marc Sageman in his influential new book, Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century (University of Pennsylvania Press). This one statistical comparison inspires Sageman, in a chapter he calls "The Atlantic Divide," to draw sweeping...

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France Offers Europe an ‘Inhuman’ Model for Immigration (The Hollywood Liberal)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:38:03 GMT

France Offers Europe an ‘Inhuman’ Model for Immigration French PM Nicolas Sarkozy wants to use France’s turn in the EU’s rotating presdiency to “harmonize” European immigration policy.

Source : The Hollywood Liberal (subscribe)

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Roger Cohen: Obama's message to Europe (International Herald Tribune)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:34:58 GMT

Senator Barack Obama should remind Europeans that trans-Atlantic ties are crucial in our fast-changing world.

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Volkswagen kills plan for pickup in Europe (Autoblog)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:01:00 GMT

Filed under: Trucks/Pickups , Euro , Volkswagen High oil prices have snuffed out Volkswagen's plans to build a European-market pickup truck. The vast and versatile loading area of a pickup, while a selling point in the US, is seen by VW as a sales liability on Euro soil. The vehicle's sales potential didn't stand up to analysis by the automaker, which cited oil prices as the culprit for shifting...

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US Dollar Gets an Independence Day Boost from Europe (Seeking Alpha)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:30:32 GMT

Grace Cheng submits: Two weeks ago, the Euro had rallied strongly against the US dollar in the currency markets on the expectation that the ECB would embark on a series of interest rate increases, but all that changed last Thursday on July 3rd. That day, the ECB raised the main refinancing rate by a quarter-percentage point to 4.25%, a move widely expected by the market. But when Trichet said during...

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Europe (BarCamp)

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The burden of free trade -Reflective Caribbean delays sign-off on trade pact with Europe (Jamaica Gleaner :: Business)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:27:17 GMT

David Jessop As this was being written Caribbean heads of government were meeting in Barbados. There, among the many other issues, they were considering the initialled but not yet signed economic partnership agreement (EPA) with Europe.Although the outcome is uncertain, the mood is for delaying signing until September, at the earliest, and for finding a basis for reconsidering some of what has...

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The Police sign off in Europe in front of 78,000 fans at Rock in Rio Festival... (ThePoliceTour.com . What's New)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:55:04 GMT

The Police performed their final European concert in Madrid last night on the fourth day of the epic 'Rock in Rio' festival in front of 78,000 fans. The show was their third Spanish performance after successful show in Valencia and Bilbao earlier in the week. The Spanish hailed their performance in glowing terms: El Mundo: "The wait has been worth it... it was sublime" La Vanguardia: "A high...

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Europe 2008 (ByronKatie.com)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:58:01 GMT

I'm thrilled to be in Europe again this summer. This may be my last visit for a while. The body says "slow down" and mind says "keep going until everyone in the world has The Work." Since I don't know...

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Europe Moving to the Right...Or Are They? (Liberal Blogosphere)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:23:00 GMT

The Left in Europe is collapsing, but not its policies. From the Globe and Mail : Britain's social-democratic New Statesman magazine this week ran a column, meant to reassure Labour's more left-leaning supporters, headlined, "Leaders offering old-fashioned state welfare are getting elected everywhere." The European leaders it mentioned were Ms. Merkel, Mr. Sarkozy and Mr. Berlusconi....

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Obama Mulling Major Speech In Berlin During Europe Trip (The Huffington Post)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:47:42 GMT

A German friend passed along the news Saturday that local sources in Berlin are confirming that the Obama campaign was in contact with city authorities to discuss the possibility of presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) delivering an outdoor address in front of the Brandenburg gate. The thinking is Obama would follow in the footsteps of two very famous Cold War-era speeches of U.S....

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Video: CBN: The Problem of Islam in Europe (Islamization Watch)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:07:00 GMT

A CBN report: Islam in Europe Western Europe and Britain may have to choose between political correctness and the survival of its civilization. Source: Bare Naked Islam

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The killing fields: Europe's hunting season begins (The Independent)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:00:01 GMT

It's one of those tiny details that the estate agent or the surveyor omits to tell you, like the fact that there's a ghost in the drawing-room or a septic tank in the next field. For Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, it was worse than either.

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C Suisse cuts cost of top team in Europe (FT.com - Europe homepage)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:31:00 GMT

Credit Suisse has cut the cost of its top management team in Europe by 30 per cent to set the tone for a broader efficiency drive in the region during the second half of this year

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New Europe head brings dynamic to bank (Financial Time)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:31:00 GMT

Behind the profit warnings and rights issues that have dominated the foreground of the banking industry this year, Credit Suisse has quietly instigated a shake-up of its European business that has already seen several veteran bankers leave its investment bank or move to new roles

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