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PANORAMA economy : Pulling a sickie

Pulling a sickie

Whether through dishonesty, laziness or a touch of hypochondria, hoards of the European workforce take undeserved days off each year. Our vocabulary for the practice comes from French literature and ancient Greece

by naomi o'leary @ // 16/09/09

economy, literature, health, idioms, expressions, swine flu, sars, tuberculosis, malaria, spanish flu

NEWS economy : Cheaper Ryanair seats for Lisbon yes votes

Cheaper Ryanair seats for Lisbon yes votes

The battle for the second Lisbon referendum is heating up in Ireland; and now, the yes side have aircraft. CEO Michael O’Leary joins Seamus Heaney, U2 and Intel in throwing his weight behind a Lisbon yes

by naomi o'leary @ // 27/08/09

economy, best of cafebabel.com, euweek, financial crisis, budget, ireland, ryanair

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G20 London Summit: "A summit like no other"

London, 3rd April 2009. After G20 leaders agreed a mind boggling trillion dollar plan to tackle the global financial crisis, Gordon Brown declared that the London summit marked “the day the world came together to fight back against the global recession”, and the beginning of a “new world order”. President ...

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Pick of the Week in London

Here's cafebabel london’s choice selection on what's happening in capital in the coming week (30 March - 05 April)

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Vox Pop - Should Britain join the Euro?

The Cafe Babel London team took to the streets of London with a video camera to find out what the general public thought. This is what a couple of randomly selected people said on the Southbank opposite the Houses of Parliament. Certainly makes interesting viewing! Two Irish girls on the ...

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Recessions are not the problem

Wille Fahler at the Ministryoftruth gives an interesting take on the economic crisis in On Money & Recessions - Recessions are not the problem. The difficult question is if this could mean that the many large programmes enacted by governments all over Europe are in fact bad investments? What do you think?

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Britain “moving closer to the Euro”? Don’t get too excited…

by Charles Morgan London, 23rd December 2008 The global financial and economic crisis has helped revive the once fervent debate on Britain and the Euro. But, as the British pound falls to record lows against the Euro, is Britain really set to follow the other euro opt-out EU Member State ...

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