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Rafa Saņudo

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Tax Avoiding Comedy Club - Rafa Saņudo

23 May 2013

Focus on fight against 'shocking' tax evasion

Tax evasion and avoidance are abhorrent, especially when governments need every penny, but tying these issues to common EU taxes and own resources is inappropriate, writes Julie Girling MEP

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We must make a decision! EU Policy making. - Rafa Saņudo

15 May 2013

EU fiddling while oil burns - time for proactive biofuels policy

Policies should focus on long-term approaches to a sustainable biofuels market development, rather than short-term reactive approaches - writes Francis X. Johnson

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Gee Wiz..All these honours and compliments...Maybe I'm dead?  Cathyyy!!! Pinch me, honey!!! - Rafa Saņudo

9 May 2013

Leadership - Alex Ferguson at Manchester United FC

Leaders perform best when they are experts in the core business of their organisations and Alex Ferguson 'walked the walk' as a player before becoming a football manager - writes Amanda Goodall

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Guantanamo bay? Of course I'm gonna close the damn thing...Just as soon as I finnish construction on the new one! - Rafa Saņudo

2 May 2013

Mass hunger strike at Guantánamo is 'humanitarian crisis'

With more than 100 detainees on hunger strike crying out in protest at treatment in Guantánamo, the torture legacy of the infamous gulag is poised to enter another humiliating chapter – claims Jake Olzen

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Instead of using 140 characters to convey political thought... We're reducing political thought to 140 characters - Rafa Saņudo

25 April 2013

The final seven: the EU commissioners yet to join Twitter

Beppe Grillo's success is only the latest of many examples showing the importance of social media in modern politics. In light of that, Daniel Mason asks why seven EU commissioners are still absent from Twitter

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14.000 Before Christ, 80 Before Bitcoin - Rafa Saņudo

18 April 2013

Will the US dollar be dethroned as the global currency?

Can the euro or the Chinese renminbi challenge the supremacy of the dollar - asks Zsolt Darvas

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Margaret Thatcher death cartoon - Rafa Saņudo

10 April 2013

Thatcher 'tore apart what was good' in Britain

Margaret Thatcher was 'nasty, brutish and short of class', and it would be utter hypocrisy to stay silent about her divisive legacy now that she has died, claims George Galloway MP

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Overseas aid, 94 band aid - Rafa Saņudo

5 April 2013

Aid cuts causing 'very real damage' to poorest

Severe reductions in European spending on development aid are causing 'very real damage' to the world's poorest people, it is claimed – after a report reveals the extent of the budget cuts last year

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European Ministry of Defence Headquarters - Rafa Saņudo

28 March 2013

Europe moving backwards on defence cooperation

European defence cooperation has stalled and might have gone into reverse gear, reports Justin Stares from the European Defence Agency annual conference in Brussels

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Cyprus bailout package could disrupt global financial systems - Rafa Saņudo

20 March 2013

Cyprus could trigger bank runs and eventual eurozone break-up

The EU and IMF could have avoided calling on depositors by using the oil and gas reserves in Cyprus as collateral for part of the bail-out instead - says Scott Livermore

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