Obama to set new goals to cut nuclear weapons: senior official 
Sharp brings giant-sized 90in TV to Europe
Sharp has released what it says is the biggest TV ever to go on sale in Europe. The Aquos LC-90LE757 features a 90in (229cm) screen, trumping an 84in display from LG. Sharp has offered the size in the US since June 2012 – the world’s biggest market for jumbo-TVs – but said it now believed [...]
Airbus beats Boeing’s orders on first day of air show
Airbus has secured more orders than rival Boeing on the opening day of the world’s biggest air show in Paris. Airbus announced orders worth $18.3bn (£11.62bn) to Boeing’s $6.1bn. The largest of these was a provisional order of 20 A380 double-decker superjumbos by aircraft financing group Doric. Airbus is looking for buyers for its A350 [...]
EU citizens’ money invested into animal suffering
Brussels, 17 June 2013. With financial backing of Member States in the European Union, international banks and credit agencies are investing in agricultural companies that fail to meet the EU’s standards for the humane treatment of farm animals. That is the conclusion of a report by international animal welfare organizations Humane Society International, Compassion in [...]
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP)
Today President Obama, together with European Commission President Barroso and European Council President Van Rompuy, announced that the United States and the European Union (EU) will be launching negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) agreement. The first round of T-TIP negotiations will take place the week of July 8 in Washington, D.C., [...]
Why the EU’s unemployment will keep rising over time with no respite
Why is it that western governments get it so horribly wrong and their eastern counterparts get it so overidingly right? For over the last quarter of a century there has been two wars going on – one military and the other economic. The irony of the former is that it has also been economic under [...]
G8 urges Europe to move on bank reform
The euro zone came under pressure from other rich economies on Monday to press on with a banking union and Japan was urged to follow up on massive central bank stimulus with structural reforms and measures to tackle its budget deficit. Leaders of the Group of Eight rich nations, which include Germany, France and Italy, [...]
