Wine Bottles Featuring Adolf Hitler on Label Have Been Deemed 'Offensive'

You think? At Telegraph UK, " Italian Hitler wine bottles 'offensive' ": Wine bottles featuring Adolf Hitler on the label ...

The French Railroad and the Transportation of the Jews to the Nazi Death Camps

From Michael Curtis, at the Gatestone Institute, " The French Railroad and the Holocaust: Is a Public Company Private? ": Did the ...

Greek Coalition Takes Power

At Telegraph UK , " Debt crisis: Greece clinches coalition deal to battle bailout ": Conservative leader Antonis Samaras was sworn...

The Euro's Global Security Fallout

A great piece, from Walter Russell Mead, at the Wall Street Journal (via Google ): The crisis of the euro zone is a geopolitical as well as...

Spain Back in Cross Hairs as Greek Election Results Fade

At the Wall Street Journal, "Spain Back in Cross Hairs: Greek Election Results Fade Quickly as Madrid's Borrowing Costs Set Record...

Greek Pro-Bailout Parties Seek Governing Coalition

At the Wall Street Journal, " Parties in Greece Near Coalition ": ATHENS — Greece's two leading pro-bailout parties appeared l...

A Greek Reprieve

A commentary on the Greek elections, at the Wall Street Journal, " The Germans might have preferred a victory by the left in Athens ....

Socialist Party Wins Majority in French Parliament

The New York Times reports, " President’s Socialist Party Wins Clear Majority in France ." And at Telegraph UK, " France elec...

Conservative New Democracy Party Set to Lead New Government in Athens

There are live updates at the Guardian and Telegraph UK . And here's Der Spiegel's report, " Pro-Bailout Party in the Lead: Ne...

Greece Still Wants Free Lunch

At the Wall Street Journal, "Greece Votes Again" (via Google ): Nobody said the second time would be the charm. Greece's polit...

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne Mansion House Speech

I'm fascinated by the extremely dire language out of Britain. Telegraph UK has the full text of Osborne's speech: " George Osbo...

Germany's Response to the Euro Crisis

From Charlemagne, at the Economist, " Between two nightmares: Angela Merkel is drawing the wrong lessons from the chaos of German histo...

Europe Borrowing Costs Skyrocket as Financial Crisis Spirals

The Washington Post has a dramatic headline, " Spain and Italy straining under borrowing costs, but Germany balks at key steps to ease ...

Nigel Farage: 'By Any Objective Criteria the Euro Has Failed'

The Euro Titanic has hit the iceberg. Via Theo Spark : RELATED : At Zero Hedge, " Biderman & Santschi On 'Why Germany Should Le...

Borrowing Costs Surge for Italy and Spain, Deepening Europe's Financial Crisis

There's lots of news on this. At the New York Times, " Prime Ministers of Spain and Italy Call on European Leaders for Help ."...

How the Euro Will End

From Gerald O'Driscoll, at the Wall Street Journal : The euro is the world's first currency invented out of whole cloth. It is a cur...

Worries in Euro Zone Shift to Italy From Spain

Well, I'm not surprised at all. At the New York Times , " Worry for Italy Quickly Replaces Relief for Spain ": VENICE — Concer...

Spain Gets €100 Billion to Save Banking System

At Telegraph UK, " Debt crisis: Spain bows to €100bn bank bailout ": Spain paved the way for a €100bn (£81bn) bail-out of its stri...

Greek Radical Left Party Says If Threatened, Athens Will Repudiate Its Debts

Well, nothing like instilling confidence in the markets with a few threats to proudly default on your obligations. And the Greek moneyed cla...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel: Stimulus Now an Option for Greece

This is a big change. Perhaps Hollande's got a little pull over at the Chancellery. See the New York Times, " Softening, Merkel Say...