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Greece and the Last Gasp of European Fiscal Sanity

May 15, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

oters across Europe have spoken in the last week and the message they have sent has upended the fragile consensus that budget cuts and fiscal discipline would bring the continent back from the brink of debt Armageddon. In national elections … read more »

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Spain Is the New Greece

March 6, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

The socialist-inspired traveling circus more commonly known as the EU debt crisis is moving from Greece to Spain. Last Friday, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced that a deepening recession in that country would make it impossible to meet the … read more »

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Springtime for Western Sahara?

January 31, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By Peter Kenworthy, Master of Social Science, Africa Contact In many North African and Arab countries, the demands for democracy and economic redistribution of the so-called “Arab Spring”, have sounded the loudest from the region’s youth. The press has covered … read more »

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