In the 1990s, European demographers began noticing a downward trend in population across the Continent and a sharply falling birth rate. Then in 2002, a study by Italian, German, and Spanish social scientists released data, which gave policy makers across the European Union something to ponder:
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When Roger Kusch helped Bettina Schardt to kill herself at home on Saturday, the grim, carefully choreographed ritual was like that in many cases of assisted suicide, with one exception: Schardt, 79, a retired X-ray technician from the Bavarian city of Würzburg, was neither sick nor dying. She simply did
Great Britain is in the midst of a trash crisis, with dwindling landfill space and one of Europe’s poorest recycling records. Threatened with steep fines if they dump too much trash, local governments around the country are imposing strict regimens to force residents to produce less and recycle more, says
The euro is currently approaching its tenth anniversary, yet it remains a contentious issue in the European Union (EU). Marek Louzek, an analyst with the Center for Economics and Politics in Prague and advisor to the President of the Czech Republic, investigates the impact of the euro to see whether
Helping the poor may be virtuous, but when the poverty industry starts losing “clients” because the market is performing good works, watch out, warns the Wall Street Journal.
For instance, Compartamos Banco is a Mexican bank that specialises in micro-financing for low-income entrepreneurs in a country that never used to have
