November, 2008

  • Nov 20, 2008

    While the Big Three U.S. automakers plead for massive public bailouts, European carmakers have followed hot on their heels, asking governments for large soft loans to help keep their businesses afloat as credit markets tighten.

  • Nov 20, 2008

    The European media have reacted cautiously, even skeptically, to reports that President-elect Barack Obama is considering offering the job of Secretary of State to Hillary Clinton, his bitter rival for the Presidential nomination in the lengthy Democratic primaries.

  • Nov 18, 2008

    Nelson D. Schwartz of The New York Times uses an example from the sorry history of the British motor industry to warn that auto bailouts, currently a hot topic in the United States, may not necessarily bring about the desired results.

  • Nov 18, 2008

    Stephen Castle of The New York Times reports from Brussels that the European Union has mostly done away with rules that banned "extra knobbly or oddly shaped produce" from grocery stores.

  • Nov 10, 2008

    The International Herald Tribune had the bright idea of asking six writers to identity what they most admired about President George W. Bush and would miss when he leaves the White House in January.