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Greek emergency cabinet meeting as G20 argue in Cannes

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:27:51 +0000

GenevaLunch.com CANNES, FRANCE – European Union leaders and the IMF, on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Cannes 3 November, have given Greece an ultimatum, saying that its citizens must decide if the country will remain part of the eurozone: a vote against a recently negotiated bailout would be seen as a vote against Greek [...]

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Inflation worries voiced as new Thai PM promises wage increases

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:46:14 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Thailand’s first woman prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, was voted into office 3 July in a landslide victory but the promises of higher wages and a host of social improvements is prompting fears in the business world that inflation will rise. The country’s economic growth was strong in 2010, but inflation reached more [...]

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Pakistan’s PM admits int’l intelligence failure

Lucy De Butts — Wed, 11 May 2011 06:40:13 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani made his first public address Monday 9 May following last week’s assassination of Osama Bin Laden. He admitted that a serious intelligence failure took place in allowing the al Queda figurehead to hide in the country for so long, but said that the failure “is not only ours but of all the intelligence [...]

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Exiled Tibetans move politics from Dalai Lama to Harvard man

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:26:11 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Exiled Tibetans, 49,000 of them worldwide, gave 55 percent of their vote to a Harvard professor, Lobsang Sangay, making him their new prime minister. The movement’s political responsibilities thus shift from the Dalai Lama, who remains their spiritual leader, to the 43-year-old professor of international law, signalling a shift in leadership to a younger generation. [...]

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To step down or not: Berlusconi’s stance not crystal clear

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:29:15 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Italian PM told foreign press he would not stand again for election Will he run or won’t he: Italy’s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, appeared to make it clear to foreign reporters at a dinner 12 April that he will not run for re-election after his current term runs out in 2013. The Guardian and the [...]

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Berlusconi prostitute trial starts, stops

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:27:18 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Italy’s Berlusconi in court circus is under way, with one of the four court cases in which he is a defendant opening, then adjourning today, the first in what is widely expected to be a series of legal maneuvers. The BBC reports that about 20,000 pages will be reviewed as part of the case where [...]

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French focus on politics with Chirac trial, Le Pen poll (update)

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:14:11 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Update Tuesday 8 March: The trial in Paris of former President Jacques Chirac has been postponed until late June to consider constitutional questions raised by the defense. The French are waking up to a lively case of national politics Monday, with Marine Le Pen given the lead in a survey by Le Parisien newspaper, for [...]

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Ireland is a little less green as party leaves coalition

Ellen Wallace — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:07:14 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Ireland is faced with the prospect of an election earlier than the one the prime minister has called for 11 March, with the Green Party leaving the ruling coalition Sunday 23 January. Prime Minister Brian Cowen called for an election Thursday, after six ministers resigned from the government, and he then said he would not [...]

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Ireland’s prime minister keeps his job

Sean Ecker — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 07:31:27 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen has won a vote of confidence among his party’s Fianna Fail members and is assured of leading the party into elections in March. It is widely expected by Irish political observers to lose the election. There were strong signs that Cowen would be dropped as leader when several MPs called [...]

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British prime minister’s wife gives birth

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:26:04 +0000

GenevaLunch.com David Cameron, the British prime minister, and his wife Samantha, were surprised by the early birth of a daughter Tuesday 24 August. The girl, who as yet has no name, was born a month early, during the family vacation in Cornwall. She is the first child in 20 years to be born to a prime [...]

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