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A “new era”: 48% of the French consider themselves living in poverty or on the way to it.

While real wages dropped 1.4%

“Voluntary” and methodical, at taxpayer’s expense

“The euro has profound economic advantages and is the most powerful symbol of European integration,” said 11 EU foreign ministers. What were they smoking?

Dominoes are lined up. Next in line: one of the world’s largest (but dying) shipyards.

Rising inequality might “jeopardize social cohesion”

Consumer Confidence up to a level not seen since February 2008—a level that caused people to tear their hair out at the time

The price of the euro as a “romantic icon”

Hedge funds, allegations, and arm-twisting. But it beats the alternative....

“Ban” in the San Francisco sense....

Granular details seeping from every crack in France’s picturesque veneer

Certainly, don’t let the riffraff decide.

Re-cementing their “strategic partnership” despite a resurgence of repressive, antidemocratic tendencies

A religious dictum

With impeccable timing