Still waiting for justice, the Saharawi people are again the victims of Moroccan violence, reports Stefan Simanowitz
Archive for November, 2010
Commission president’s anger as EU budget talks founder
By Kate Holman /Friday, November 19th, 2010Negotiations over the European Union’s budget for 2011 broke down in bitter acrimony late on Monday night, with member states and the European Parliament blaming each other for the failure to reach a compromise
Israel considers US inducement to freeze settlements in the West Bank
By Marcus Papadopoulos /Friday, November 19th, 2010Israel is mulling over a package of incentives offered by the United States in exchange for a 90-day cessation of Jewish settlement construction in the occupied West Bank
Coalition to cut bank levy as Britain’s big banks discuss bonus cut
By Ben Fox /Friday, November 19th, 2010The Government has indicated that it intends to cut its proposed bank levy after leading banks warned the Treasury that it could raise £3.9 billion a year by 2013 rather than the £2.5 billion estimated by the Treasury
Government defeated over housing targets
By René Lavanchy /Thursday, November 18th, 2010Social housing schemes across the country could be restored after the Government’s abolition of regional housing targets, throwing out plans for over 180,000 homes, was rejected by the High Court last week
We all gain from universal benefits
By Malcolm Wicks /Thursday, November 18th, 2010The Government proposes to stop child benefit for the better-off. Malcolm Wicks presents the case for the defence
‘I will see arms treaty ratified’, Obama tells Russia’s Medvedev
By Keith Richmond /Thursday, November 18th, 2010President Barack Obama has promised Dmitry Medvedev that he will continue to push the United States Senate to ratify the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
Capital punishment as cutting edge Tories mull over plans for do-it-yourself society
By David Hencke /Thursday, November 18th, 2010The Queen, Baroness Thatcher, Parliament and flagship West End stores have only just escaped an extraordinary plan by Conservative-controlled Westminster council to make them – or their staff – responsible for sweeping the streets outside their homes and businesses
Legal threats to Whitehall payout cuts
By René Lavanchy /Thursday, November 18th, 2010Government plans to cut civil service redundancy pay are facing legal challenges from the biggest Whitehall union and the European Court of Justice
Hain joins Labour campaign to back the alternative vote
By René Lavanchy /Thursday, November 18th, 2010Shadow Welsh Secretary Peter Hain has this week boosted the labour movement in support of the alternative vote by announcing he will be giving his backing to the campaign