http://www.inveslogic.com/tags/political-issues Blog Articles Tagged with 'political-issues' at http://www.inveslogic.com en http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1149482?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues German finance minister Peer Steinbr ck has made some enemies lately, giving an interview in which he accused the UK of crass Keynesianism and complained that it had spent so many years lecturing the rest of the EU about fiscal rectitude. The ... Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:55:55 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1149482?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1148665?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues The US state of New Hampshire now has more female senators than male in the upper house of state government.After [the November 4] election, thirteen of the twenty-four state Senate seats in New Hampshire are now occupied by women. Peggy Gilmore (Dis... Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:59:33 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1148665?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1134718?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues There are essentially two basic critiques of the EU s institutions; one is the classic, Monnet/Schuman house ideology view that its problems are simply because there isn t enough of it. If it was more like the US federal government, it would work... Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:14:58 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1134718?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1133083?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has officially dissolved the parliament, and new elections are set for December 7. He made no secret of why he thought the coalition broke up:The democratic coalition - I am convinced, deeply convinced - was dest... Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:23:37 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1133083?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1124453?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues So the Russians are saying they ll withdraw from Georgia Real Soon Now. Meanwhile Moscow has signed treaties of mutual defense with the, you know, totally independent and sovereign nations of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. If Georgia makes a move ... Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:56:17 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1124453?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1123284?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues It isn t working, and Ukraine s parliament has 30 days to form a new ruling coalition. Good luck with that, too. If not, elections in December.The long-simmering feud between Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko has, again, reached its breaking... Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:13:42 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1123284?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1116981?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues This scares me shitless.Methane gas oozing up from Siberian seabed: Swedish researcher1 hour agoSTOCKHOLM (AFP) Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is leaking from the permafrost under the Siberian seabed, a researcher on an international expeditio... Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:24:27 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1116981?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1113349?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues We re back after a happily uneventful, if hot and a bit long, drive from Yerevan. Went past one of the air bases that was bombed, and saw what looked like a burned field, but otherwise no damage visible from the public road.The city itself is more ... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:38:43 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1113349?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1113354?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues It seems clear they done it; for God knows what reason - arrogance, hoping beyond hope, misjudgment - Georgia started something it couldn t finish. The Russians, for their part, were playing for it for years; the harassment campaign, the motor-rifl... Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:19:03 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1113354?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1112108?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues The war has a retrograde feel says Charlie. I believe* it s only the third conventional war between two countries since the Gulf war. They were far more common during the cold war era. The other was the Ethiopia-Eritrea war**, and Iraq. One hopes... Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:21:50 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1112108?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1110768?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues If anyone qualifies as candidate material for the position of the new Solar King, then David Miliband certainly does. So perhaps the young contender doesn t have to say anything, he just has to be heard to speak. For potential admirers, tone is wha... Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:40:58 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1110768?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1084195?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues To Desmond McGrath, adding his expertise, wit and wisdom to the AFOE mix as a guest writer for the next three weeks. Desmond is based in Budapest, Hungary, so we are getting a few forints worth along with all of our euros. If we re really lucky,... Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:11:35 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1084195?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1055975?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues Jason Burke of the Observer reports that the next few days are expected to bring the indictment of people involved in Ergenekon. Ergenekon? Well, if you read AFOE you ll already know that Ergenekon is a secret extreme-right network of influence wit... Sun, 04 May 2008 11:51:19 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1055975?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1031525?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues Not too long ago, Doug Muir wrote about why Nagorno-Karabakh may be coming soon to a front page near you. Back in the mid-1990s, I wrote something much longer on the conflict there. (PDF, ca. 500K) Money quote:Two of the least useful questions for co... Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:47:28 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1031525?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1028046?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues In less than a week Italy will be holding a general election three years ahead of schedule, but before I explain how the upcoming vote may lead to another gridlock, I believe an introduction is in order. My name is Manuel Alvarez-Rivera and I m ... Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:50:09 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1028046?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1031528?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues In less than a week Italy will be holding a general election three years ahead of schedule, but before I explain how the upcoming vote may lead to another gridlock, I believe an introduction is in order. My name is Manuel Alvarez-Rivera and I m ... Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:50:09 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1031528?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1020760?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues Hungarian intellectuals are protesting against the owner of the newspaper Magyar Hirlap, after the paper started printing some genuinely shocking anti-semitic opinions. Specifically, its new columnist Zsolt Bayer took it on himself to describe th... Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:34:43 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1020760?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1007433?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues It looks like Nicolas Sarkozy s pet foreign-policy idea has been sporked, good and proper; his idea of a Mediterranean Union is now officially an ex-parrot, after it failed to get German support. As we ve been saying right back to 2005, th... Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:43:45 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1007433?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/985312?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues Karl Marx said that ideology is part of the social superstructure, merely a decorative overlay on the brutal truth of the economic base. Millian liberalism was really just an expression of the pounding steam engines, Jacquard looms and downtrodden a... Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:34:39 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/985312?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/983779?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues Well, sort of. I somehow doubt Jean Monnet would have been thinking of this when he came up with the idea of a Europe so closely bound together by trade war would be forever impossible. Rogue Planet reports that the biggest buyer of Bosnian armament... Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:44:34 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/983779?rsstype=tag&tag=political-issues