Germany’s centre-right coalition announced this morning that it is getting out of the nuclear power business entirely. All seventeen of its plants will be closed by 2022 at the latest. This has been a long held plank of the “Red-Green” alliance …
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Blast Furnace Canada Blog: Mladić arrested
The bid of Serbia to join the European Union, perhaps as early as 2014, may finally be on track with today’s news that Ratko Mladić has been arrested — in Serbia. It’s taken far too long, 16 years, but maybe at long last the healing the Balkan re…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Strauss-Kahn arrested
When I heard the news late Saturday night after work that IMF chief Dominique Strauss Kahn had been arrested for an alleged sexual assault in NYC just as his flight to Paris was getting ready to take off — presumably, the flight that would take him on…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Ireland hits the polls, and the wall
In terms of politics, this is truly an earthquake.True, the top two parties in Ireland are pretty much Tweedledum and Tweedledee (they’re both centre right) but after all the ballots have been counted in Ireland the party that has pretty much dominated…
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