http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/23/vatican-backs-european-personhood-initiative/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/23/vatican-backs-european-personhood-initiative/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 22:32:53 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134534 LifeSiteNews: The Vatican is backing a petition campaign in the European Union that seeks a debate about enshrining personhood for the unborn from the moment of conception. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/23/vatican-backs-european-personhood-initiative/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/17/european-court-of-human-rights-a-significant-victory-for-the-freedom-of-the-church/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/17/european-court-of-human-rights-a-significant-victory-for-the-freedom-of-the-church/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 22:12:31 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134037 Turtle Bay and Beyond: Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights published a judgment in the important case of Fernandez-Martínez c. Espagne (application no 56030/07), in which it concluded by six votes to one that “the choice of the bishop not to renew the contract of a teacher who is a married priest and activist of the Pro-Optional Celibacy Movement comes under the principle of religious freedom, as protected by the Convention.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/17/european-court-of-human-rights-a-significant-victory-for-the-freedom-of-the-church/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/dutch-lawmaker-geert-wilders-will-sue-to-stop-ratification-of-european-bailout-fund/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/dutch-lawmaker-geert-wilders-will-sue-to-stop-ratification-of-european-bailout-fund/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 20:11:21 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133881 Washington Post: Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders says he will file a lawsuit to block the Netherlands from ratifying the permanent European bailout fund. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/16/dutch-lawmaker-geert-wilders-will-sue-to-stop-ratification-of-european-bailout-fund/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/austerity-creating-backlash-across-europe/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/austerity-creating-backlash-across-europe/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:22:51 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132367 NY Times: Romania’s government fell Friday in a no-confidence vote just two months after taking office, the latest government in Europe to crumble amid disputes over unpopular austerity measures. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/27/austerity-creating-backlash-across-europe/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/26/france-threatens-to-pull-out-of-borderless-scheme/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/26/france-threatens-to-pull-out-of-borderless-scheme/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:00:17 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132192 AP: The French government says that if the European Union doesn't agree on a tougher line to fight illegal immigration it will pull out of Schengen borderless travel zone within a year. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/26/france-threatens-to-pull-out-of-borderless-scheme/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/american-religious-right-advances-in-europe-national-secular-society/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/american-religious-right-advances-in-europe-national-secular-society/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:03:10 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131913 National Secular Society: The American religious right continues its advance into Europe. Our representative at the Fundamental Rights Agency Hans Christian Cars reports that Roger Kiska, Senior Legal Counsel at the Alliance Defence Fund, is based in Europe and disturbingly has been elected to the Advisory Panel 2012-2013 of the Fundamental Rights Platform (FRP). ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/24/american-religious-right-advances-in-europe-national-secular-society/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/17/human-rights-rulings-face-crisis-of-legitimacy-as-report-warns-of-reforms-to-ensure-protection/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/17/human-rights-rulings-face-crisis-of-legitimacy-as-report-warns-of-reforms-to-ensure-protection/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:40:51 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131397 Daily Mail: Yesterday’s report by Murray Hunt, legal adviser to Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights, said: ‘Something needs to be done to redress the debilitating democratic deficit that afflicts human rights. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/17/human-rights-rulings-face-crisis-of-legitimacy-as-report-warns-of-reforms-to-ensure-protection/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/17/uk-quietly-confident-of-european-court-of-human-rights-changes/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/17/uk-quietly-confident-of-european-court-of-human-rights-changes/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:37:08 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131393 BBC: The government is "quietly confident" it will secure changes to the European Court of Human Rights at a conference this week, Downing Street has said. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/17/uk-quietly-confident-of-european-court-of-human-rights-changes/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/12/hungary-makes-waves-with-new-constitution-ambassador-says-document-can-promote-a-christian-renaissance-in-europe/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/12/hungary-makes-waves-with-new-constitution-ambassador-says-document-can-promote-a-christian-renaissance-in-europe/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:39:24 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131050 Zenit: Hungary’s Ambassador to the Holy See is rather perplexed by the negative reaction of some European figures and institutions to his country’s new Constitution -- a document he sees as offering a possible impetus to a "Christian renaissance" in Europe. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/12/hungary-makes-waves-with-new-constitution-ambassador-says-document-can-promote-a-christian-renaissance-in-europe/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/12/european-development-aid-and-funding-abortions/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/12/european-development-aid-and-funding-abortions/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:44:21 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131010 C-Fam: The European Commission is using development funds to pay for abortions in countries that restrict the procedure and funding the two largest abortion providers in the world, International Planned Parenthood Federation and Marie Stopes International, according to a new report by European Dignity Watch. The report The Funding of Abortion through EU Development Aid reveals . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/12/european-development-aid-and-funding-abortions/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/10/eu-court-uk-can-extradite-5-terror-suspects-to-us/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/10/eu-court-uk-can-extradite-5-terror-suspects-to-us/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:41:12 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130854 Boston Globe: Europe's human rights court ruled Thursday that Britain can send a radical Muslim cleric and four other suspects to the United States to face terrorism charges in a case that has been closely watched as an indicator of whether tough U.S. prisons could influence extradition policy. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/10/eu-court-uk-can-extradite-5-terror-suspects-to-us/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/10/irish-tax-rebellion-half-of-households-refuse-to-pay-eu-bailout-surcharge-after-thousands-protest/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/10/irish-tax-rebellion-half-of-households-refuse-to-pay-eu-bailout-surcharge-after-thousands-protest/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:32:40 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130850 Irish Times: With the rate of payment of the charge at about 50 per cent local authorities are facing an unprecedented gap in funding. BBC: Thousands at Dublin household charge protest ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/10/irish-tax-rebellion-half-of-households-refuse-to-pay-eu-bailout-surcharge-after-thousands-protest/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/27/eu-funding-of-abortion-giants-exposed-by-european-dignity-watch/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/27/eu-funding-of-abortion-giants-exposed-by-european-dignity-watch/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:32:39 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129733 Turtle Bay and Beyond: The non-profit advocacy group European Dignity Watch has published a report that exposes and denounces EU funding of International Planned Parenthood Federation and Marie Stopes International, the two largest abortion providers in the world. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/27/eu-funding-of-abortion-giants-exposed-by-european-dignity-watch/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/27/eu-condemns-albanian-officials-anti-gay-remarks/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/27/eu-condemns-albanian-officials-anti-gay-remarks/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:08:47 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129649 AP reports. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/27/eu-condemns-albanian-officials-anti-gay-remarks/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/27/ireland-sets-may-31-date-for-eu-treaty-referendum/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/27/ireland-sets-may-31-date-for-eu-treaty-referendum/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:51:04 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129643 AP: Bailed-out Ireland will stage a referendum on the European fiscal treaty May 31 . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/27/ireland-sets-may-31-date-for-eu-treaty-referendum/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/23/new-president-urges-germans-to-stand-by-europe/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/23/new-president-urges-germans-to-stand-by-europe/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:39:06 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129367 AP: Joachim Gauck, a former Lutheran pastor and East German pro-democracy activist with no party affiliation, was formally sworn in ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/23/new-president-urges-germans-to-stand-by-europe/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/21/report-2011-intolerance-and-discrimination-against-christians-in-europe/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/21/report-2011-intolerance-and-discrimination-against-christians-in-europe/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:21:05 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129337 IntoleranceAgainstChristians.edu: The Observatory's Report on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in the Year 2011 was released on March 19th, 2012. This report portrays the most important developments with regard to freedom of religion, the most striking cases of intolerance and discrimination throughout Europe – and what individuals and institutions say about it. The report includes several statistics as well as analysis of the meaning of freedom of religion in the European context. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/21/report-2011-intolerance-and-discrimination-against-christians-in-europe/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/21/has-ireland-%e2%80%98rejected%e2%80%99-un-calls-to-legalize-abortion-that-remains-to-be-seen/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/21/has-ireland-%e2%80%98rejected%e2%80%99-un-calls-to-legalize-abortion-that-remains-to-be-seen/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:09:22 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129331 LifeSiteNews: Like most Irish people, I welcomed the Irish government’s rejection of calls made at a major UN hearing for Ireland to legalize abortion. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/21/has-ireland-%e2%80%98rejected%e2%80%99-un-calls-to-legalize-abortion-that-remains-to-be-seen/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/21/council-of-europe-head-criticizes-hungary-law-reducing-officially-recognized-churches/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/21/council-of-europe-head-criticizes-hungary-law-reducing-officially-recognized-churches/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:29:06 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129280 AP: The head of the Council of Europe on Wednesday criticized a new law in Hungary that sharply reduced the number of officially recognized churches and changed the procedure they need to follow to gain that status. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/21/council-of-europe-head-criticizes-hungary-law-reducing-officially-recognized-churches/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/20/venice-commission-criticizes-parts-of-hungarys-new-law-on-legal-status-of-churches/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/20/venice-commission-criticizes-parts-of-hungarys-new-law-on-legal-status-of-churches/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:07:43 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129146 Religion Clause Blog: The Venice Commission is the Council of Europe's advisory body on constitutional law. Yesterday, responding to a request from the government of Hungary for an advisory opinion, the Commission issued a 15-page report on Hungary's 2011 Act On the Right to Freedom of Conscience and Religion and the Legal Status of Churches, Denominations and Religious Communities. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/20/venice-commission-criticizes-parts-of-hungarys-new-law-on-legal-status-of-churches/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/16/comment-on-eu-courts-ruling-upholding-french-restrictions-on-lesbian-adoption/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/16/comment-on-eu-courts-ruling-upholding-french-restrictions-on-lesbian-adoption/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:46:57 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128914 Turtle Bay and Beyond: In today’s Chamber judgment in the case of GAS et DUBOIS c. France (Requête no 25951/07), the European Court of Human Rights held, by six votes to one, that there had been no violation of the European Convention on Human Rights by the limitation of MPA techniques to heterosexual couples and by the French refusal to allow a woman to adopt her same-sex partner’s child. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/16/comment-on-eu-courts-ruling-upholding-french-restrictions-on-lesbian-adoption/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/15/hungary-has-sharp-words-for-eu/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/15/hungary-has-sharp-words-for-eu/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:14:51 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128797 Wall Street Journal (via Google): Hungary's premier fired a new broadside in the country's running battle of wills with the European Union, saying that Hungarians should be free to make their own laws without interference from Brussels. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/15/hungary-has-sharp-words-for-eu/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/12/turkish-military-court-applies-european-human-rights-precedents-to-conscientious-objectors/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/12/turkish-military-court-applies-european-human-rights-precedents-to-conscientious-objectors/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:03:44 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128292 Religion Clause Blog: A Turkish military court last week handed down an important decision on the rights of conscientious objectors. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/12/turkish-military-court-applies-european-human-rights-precedents-to-conscientious-objectors/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/09/european-commission-finds-it-difficult-to-explain-funding-for-homosexual-propaganda/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/09/european-commission-finds-it-difficult-to-explain-funding-for-homosexual-propaganda/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:10:24 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128191 Turtle Bay and Beyond: It was of course never to be expected that the European Commission, as a reply to critical questions from the European Parliament with regard to the generous funding it is handing out to ILGA-Europe (a homosexual lobby group with links to pedohile networks), would openly acknowledge to have committed a misuse of budgetary funds. But if replies to parliamentary questions are evasive and not to the point, this can be viewed as a clear indication that the Commission finds it very difficult to explain to the public what it is doing. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/09/european-commission-finds-it-difficult-to-explain-funding-for-homosexual-propaganda/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/05/eu-leaders-threaten-court-action-over-syria/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/05/eu-leaders-threaten-court-action-over-syria/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:12:06 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=127672 HispanicBusiness.com: European Union leaders on Friday threatened those responsible for a bloody crackdown in Syria with their day in court, as British Prime Minister David Cameron spoke of "medieval barbarity" unfolding in the Middle Eastern country. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/05/eu-leaders-threaten-court-action-over-syria/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/05/eu-eyes-quotas-for-women-on-company-boards/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/05/eu-eyes-quotas-for-women-on-company-boards/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:23:37 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=127630 AP: The European Union is moving closer to introducing mandatory quotas for the number of women on company boards after businesses failed to make sufficient progress in gender equality over the past year. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/05/eu-eyes-quotas-for-women-on-company-boards/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/22/eu-threatens-funding-cut-to-hungary/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/22/eu-threatens-funding-cut-to-hungary/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:10:04 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=126530 Wall Street Journal: The European Commission proposed Wednesday to suspend €495 million ($602.2 million) in European Union budget funds for Hungary in 2013 unless it acts quickly to cut its deficit. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/22/eu-threatens-funding-cut-to-hungary/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/20/eu-abortion-roundup-albania-gender-imbalance-due-to-sex-selection-spanish-abortion-bankrupt/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/20/eu-abortion-roundup-albania-gender-imbalance-due-to-sex-selection-spanish-abortion-bankrupt/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:17:20 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=126249 LifeSiteNews.com: The Council of Europe has revealed that sex-selective abortion is widely practiced in Albania and the result is a growing gulf between the numbers of boys and the number of girls. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/20/eu-abortion-roundup-albania-gender-imbalance-due-to-sex-selection-spanish-abortion-bankrupt/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/17/queer-logic-why-ilga-europe-levies-no-membership-fees/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/17/queer-logic-why-ilga-europe-levies-no-membership-fees/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:59:03 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=126114 Turtle Bay and Beyond – International Law, Policy, and Institutions: In a recent series of posts, we have shed some light on the strange fact that the European Commission is maintaining, at the expense of taxpayers, a fake “non-governmental organization” called ILGA-Europe, which, pretending to be a voice of civil society, seeks to promote the opinion that homosexual behaviour should be rewarded through legal privilege. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/17/queer-logic-why-ilga-europe-levies-no-membership-fees/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/16/european-court-of-human-rights-critics-of-homosexuality-don%e2%80%99t-enjoy-freedom-of-opinion/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/16/european-court-of-human-rights-critics-of-homosexuality-don%e2%80%99t-enjoy-freedom-of-opinion/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:32:56 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=126010 Turtle Bay and Beyond: In Sweden, critics of homosexuality risk being sent to jail. And the European Court of Human Rights, demonstrating once again its complete and utter failure to protect the fundamental rights enshrined in the European Rights Convention, finds that this constitutes no violation of the freedom of opinion. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/16/european-court-of-human-rights-critics-of-homosexuality-don%e2%80%99t-enjoy-freedom-of-opinion/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/15/european-court-of-human-rights-upholds-swedish-criminal-convictions-for-anti-gay-leaflets/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/15/european-court-of-human-rights-upholds-swedish-criminal-convictions-for-anti-gay-leaflets/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:29:42 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=125803 The Volokh Conspiracy: The case is Vejdeland v. Sweden (Feb. 9, 2012) . . . In December 2004 the applicants [who are adults] … went to an upper secondary school (gymnasieskola) and distributed approximately a hundred leaflets by leaving them in or on the pupils’ lockers. The episode ended when the school’s principal intervened and made them leave the premises . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/15/european-court-of-human-rights-upholds-swedish-criminal-convictions-for-anti-gay-leaflets/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/13/merkel-taking-europe-in-wrong-direction-soros/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/13/merkel-taking-europe-in-wrong-direction-soros/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:47:30 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=125552 Breitbart: Soros warned against addressing the crisis with spending cuts, urging the injection of funds instead. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/13/merkel-taking-europe-in-wrong-direction-soros/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/31/britain-czechs-snub-europes-fiscal-pact-but-wont-forge-an-alliance-of-critics/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/31/britain-czechs-snub-europes-fiscal-pact-but-wont-forge-an-alliance-of-critics/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:54:03 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=124595 ChicagoTribune.com: "This is a treaty outside of the EU," British leader David Cameron insisted Tuesday at the House of Commons. "We are not signing it. We are not ratifying it. We are not part of it." The decision by Cameron and Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas to reject the deal leaves Europe with a clumsy compromise and has thrown up legal questions about using EU-wide institutions like the European Court of Justice to enforce the pact. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/31/britain-czechs-snub-europes-fiscal-pact-but-wont-forge-an-alliance-of-critics/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/30/eu-summit-uk-and-czechs-refuse-to-join-fiscal-compact/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/30/eu-summit-uk-and-czechs-refuse-to-join-fiscal-compact/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:34:14 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=124456 BBC News: wenty-five of the EU's 27 member states have agreed to join a fiscal treaty to enforce budget discipline. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/30/eu-summit-uk-and-czechs-refuse-to-join-fiscal-compact/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/30/europes-lost-generation-how-it-feels-to-be-young-and-struggling-in-the-eu/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/30/europes-lost-generation-how-it-feels-to-be-young-and-struggling-in-the-eu/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:04:49 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=124334 The Guaridan The Observer: Viola Caon left her Italian home to find work. Now she returns to see how her former classmates are faring… and in the week that shocking figures showed how badly Europe's youth is being hit by the unemployment crisis, we also talk to hard-hit twentysomethings in Athens and Madrid . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/30/europes-lost-generation-how-it-feels-to-be-young-and-struggling-in-the-eu/feed/ 0