Europe

Europe Agrees to $1 Trillion Bailout Fund for Euro

COPENHAGEN — European finance ministers agreed Friday to create a permanent bailout fund for the euro zone with temporary lending capacity of €800 billion, the latest signal sent by Europe to show its determination to overcome a two-year-old crisis of confidence. The decision gives Europe a so-called firewall against future […]

Symmetry of slaughter

By GWYNNE DYER ARABNEWS After Mohamed Merah died in a hail of French police bullets last week, people who had known him talked about “a polite and courteous boy” who liked “cars, bikes, sports and girls.” His friends had trouble believing that he had murdered seven people, including three children, […]

France bars entry of radical imams

Credit: TOI Sarkozy to bar radical imams from entering France PARIS: France will bar radical Muslim preachers from entering the country to participate in an Islamic conference next month as part of a crackdown after shootings by an al-Qaida-inspired gunman, president Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday. Sarkozy, who has announced […]

Faith and Europe’s enlightenment

Credit: Express Tribune: The Dark Ages is the period Europe spent in ignorance of Greek knowledge. How did Europe get out of this period? We saw last week —  in my oped titled “A brief history of modernity” published in this newspaper on March 18 — how the foundations of […]