Germany to give vouchers to their jobless citizens instead of unemployment ‘cash’: Authoritarianism on the…

The Polish church is losing members due to sex scandals and increasing secularism. WARSAW, Poland — Poland's powerful Roman Catholic Church is losing its faithful as the country becomes more secular and the church finds its moral authority sapped by sexual scandals and increasing concern over its political influence.

These last couple of days I've been tangled up in reports from economic analysts at ING Bank, Capital Economics and others on the probability and outcome of a break-up of the eurozone. In a line, probability is more than 50 percent that the break-up will come in five years or less, and immediate outcome is going to be dramatic and traumatic. Conclusion I take: stay clear of the place.

The Lib Dem leader faced down his critics, insisting his party is still independent and that the Tories share its 'reforming zeal'.

Europe's disappointment with President Barack Obama's presidency was laid bare Thursday as the EU’s most senior figure called for a dramatic effort to revive transatlantic relations.

Dr. Judith Reisman comments that Swiss government just freed the “celebrated” Roman Polanski from his multi-million dollar Swiss Chalet. The international pedophile movement would have applied whatever pressure was needed to have one of their own released from his champagne and caviar castle walls.

PARIS- France's lower house of parliament overwhelmingly approved a ban on wearing burqa-style Islamic veils Tuesday, part of a concerted effort to define and protect French values that has disconcerted many in the country's large Muslim community.

The big news out of Europe this morning, and the reason for the drag on the euro is an article in Der Spiegel, “Merkel’s rules for bankruptcy” according to which Germany is now actively (and very secretly) pushing for a plan outlining a set of insolvency rules, which would require that private investors bear a portion of the rescue burden, and much more importantly, would see at least a partial give up in state sovereignty,

The Treasury is drawing up plans for a 'financial activity tax' which would hit bankers' bonuses and excessive profits. Banks are facing a new multi-billion pound 'supertax' in order to compensate taxpayers for the vast sums lost in the financial crisis, it emerged last night.

Releasing France's Holocaust archives — all of which should be available on the Internet in 2015. In the aftermath of the Allied liberation of France, the poet Louis Aragon, mimicking his medieval forebear François Villon while channeling a despondent collaborator in the 1945 ballad "The Snows of Sigmaringen," famously asked not "Where are the snows of yesteryear?" but "Where are my henchmen of yesteryear

CHILDREN suffering from cataracts and tumours on their eyes – one just six weeks old – could lose their sight as a direct result of cutbacks at the country's leading paediatric hospital.

PALO ALTO — Visiting Silicon Valley one day late last month, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev promised that “Russia will continue to be a predictable international partner.”

They are still children, only 12 or 13 years old. They fall in love for the first time, at the school gates or on Facebook, and wind up with a pimp. Parents and police are struggling against the hold so-called loverboys have over young girls, but often it's already too late.

In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, he says health and safety has 'gone mad'. Britain's health and safety 'neurosis' will end as Labour regulations are torn up, David Cameron reveals today.

The Cold War had ended, the Berlin Wall had come down and German reunification was imminent when Markus Wolf, the former head of the Stasi and East Germany's spy chief, wrote a letter to former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. In the letter,

Stephanie L. Freid – Some lines are simply not meant to be crossed, no matter how desperately your cause wants to get a message out.