January 13, 2012 – 9:03 am
This is from the Telegraph: A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing “sexual services” at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year…. Under Germany’s welfare reforms, any woman under 55 who has been out of work for more than a year can be forced [...]
December 11, 2011 – 9:55 pm
From Andrew Rawnsley in The Guardian: Even Eurosceptics will soon find that there is nothing splendid about isolation. Our capacity to shape the future of the world’s wealthiest economic bloc, which is also our most important export market, has just been dramatically diminished. This will have consequences not just for Britain’s influence in Europe, but [...]