After all the debates and primaries, upsets and accusations that have been taking place in the Republican primaries and that unfortunately are going to continue for a while yet, one was wondering about Obama’s approach for the State of the Union address. Read the rest of this entry »

Friday 13 means in many countries bad luck. France, Austria and seven other countries in Europe are probably agreeing with that now as yesterday, January the 13, the US based ratings agency Standard & Poor’s cut France and Austria triple -A rating by one notch to AA+, and downgraded the other seven countries -Spain, Italy, Portugal, Malta, Cyprus, Slovakia and Slovenia two notches. Read the rest of this entry »

Elections in the US, specially presidential elections, have always been mystifying for Europeans, though little by little some European politicians are beginning to copy some aspects of it, like introducing families, and making their lives known to their constituents. Still there is a lot to catch up if in reality they want to transform their elections into the circus attractions and even the nastiness the American elections end up turning into. Read the rest of this entry »

This coming April the first round of the French presidential elections will take place, with the two biggest vote winners going through the last and decisive round in early May. While European elections don’t play as long as American ones nor are they so ubiquitous on television and all media, the French ones this time had been talked about more than usual due to the arrest in new York last May of Dominique Strauss-Kahn who until that moment had been considered as the one who could become the next French president. Read the rest of this entry »

There was not much talk about the euro crisis during the Christmas holidays. For a few days we almost pretended everything was well and we could relax. But now just when many have realized that January is going to be a hard month, never mind that we tried to be careful with the expenses, we have been hit with the euro sliding to below $1.27, the lowest since September 2010 Read the rest of this entry »

Last February, after all the unrest, protests and violence in Egypt, Hosni Mubarak had to leave power and the military took over allegedly to restore calm until a new government was formed. While many countries, including the US, seemed to accept this, many people were not reassured. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday began what we could call “The American Election Circus” which unfortunately is going to last almost one year, cost lots of dollars and generate much garbage on the media. Read the rest of this entry »