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M**Bun, Eataly, GROM: the organic flavour in Turin
Eating well can save the environment, economy, and local heritage, according to the Slow Food Movement, an international non-profit culinary educational organisation which was founded in 1989 by the Italian writer Carlo Petrini. Its appetising premise is to combat the acculturating effects of corporate America & co. through the affirmation of local, fresh, organic food. Its phrased in its manifesto as ‘the right to pleasure’, and in Turin, it’s a right that’s being energetically exercised
world financial crisis, business, economic crisis, food, cities, italy, europe on the ground
Calling Europe’s anarchist class 2008-2009: no need to smash bank windows
Today, anarchy has nothing to offer the public; a five-year-old sat in McDonalds could think of a better way to govern the people. Those that push it – the protesters on Europe's streets, as most popularly depicted in the media - are merely self-serving fools who ignore what democracy has done for us, and who are driven by some sort of warped fantasy of idyllic life
world financial crisis, bank, fortis, dexia, g20, european elections 2009, london
Economic crisis: how G20 summit in Pittsburgh will go down in history
On 24 September, heads of state and government of the 20 leading industrial and emerging countries come together in Pennsylvania to sketch out a new global financial order. The French, Spanish, Luxembourgish and Swiss press hopes for the best, but voices few expectations for the G20 summit
world financial crisis, g20, financial crisis, summit, fiscal paradise, economy, euweek
'Historic' G20 in London: a one trillion summit like no other
On 2 April G20 leaders agreed on a mind boggling trillion dollar plan to tackle the global financial crisis. As US president Barack Obama heads to Strasbourg for a Nato summit, a roundup of the juice and conclusions
world financial crisis, g20, angela merkel, economic crisis, eudebate2009, summit, london
