After Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, during the 17th Ibero-American summit held at Santiago de Chile and in the presence of leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal, call former right-wing Spanish Prime-Minister José María Aznar a "fascist", the king of Spain Juan Carlos I, angrily turns to Chavez and says, "Why don't you shut up?" ["por qué no te callas?"].
During a ceremony at the Polish-German border, celebrating the expansion of the Schengen passport-free travel zone, Portuguese PM José Sócrates, doesn't miss the chance to brag about the Portuguese technology which "made it possible for the opening of borders to happen", a statement that made Germany's Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and the rest of the group laugh their heads off.
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As mudanças na Europa com o Tratado de Lisboa.
What is going to change in Europe with the Lisbon Treaty (in Portuguese).
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"How the populist right in Switzerland is peppering the debate on immigration, with parliamentary elections approaching." - will nowadays new Swiss Immigrants have the chance to integrate themselves just as good as the old ones manage to?
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Beyond the Fox News editorial style, the truth is that Sweden today faces some serious problems, regarding immigrant inclusion and integration into the Swedish society. Result of prior bad decisions and mistakes, these are problems that the country delays on addressing effectively.
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As the Schengen joined nations celebrate the "end" of a divided Europe, almost two decades after the fall of the Iron Curtain, they seem failing to notice that a ?1.5 billion barrier of barbed wire was just erected along its eastern frontiers -- a new dividing Wall.
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WHO ARE THE KURDS (THE OTHER IRAQ - Chapter 1)
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The government wants to make people applying for British citizenship "prove their worth" to the UK in a new plan.
Cavaco Silva ao visitar o Mosteiro de Arouca para observar a confecção de doçaria conventual tradicional Portuguesa, não perde a oportunidade para gracejar perguntando "E já esteve aqui a ASAE?". Mais tarde inquirido pelos jornalistas quanto ao porquê da fina ironia a respeito da Autoridade de Segurança Alimentar e Económica, Cavaco responderá apenas que em tudo na vida, há que haver "bom senso".
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"Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services [...]" -- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Art. 25º 1. -- And yet, in a world of plenty, million still starve.
Income Planning and Safe Withdrawal Rates - Seekingalpha.com It has become more and more evident to me that most investors have almost no real sense of what they need to save for retirement—an issue that is closely linked to the problem of determining how much income an investor can safely draw from his/her ...
The Secret to Retirement Planning - Safe Haven "When it comes to planning for the future, most people think of retirement. Retirement planning is important because it allows you to do the things that you were unable to do while working -- travel, start a business, go back to school, be closer to ...
Small Firms Beef Up Retirement Services - Wall Street Journal Small businesses are helping employees become better managers -- of their own money. When it comes to managing their retirement-savings accounts, small-business employees often are at a disadvantage compared with their counterparts at large companies ...
Widely Held Attitudes to Different Generations - Forbes A recent survey by Harris Interactive conducted for Charles Schwab and Age Wave asked almost 4,000 Americans aged 21 to 83 what they thought of different generations. Specifically, they were asked about people aged 13 to 31 or Generation Y; those ...