Epstein Secrets

. Italian voters rejected both Europe's main response to high government debt — cut spending, raise taxes — and a major rebuke to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was the main architect of the austerity policies. The resentment of austerity is no mystery. The Italian economy has contracted for six consecu

— and a major rebuke to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was the main architect of the austerity poli

ity, Italian Style — things aren't looking good as Mr. Monti's party appears likely to come in fourth; running well behind the former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi who has been convicted of fraud, and also behind comedian, Beppe Grillo, "whose lack of coherent platform hash t stopped him from becoming a powerf

procrastination—known universally as "kicking the can down the road"—Europe has reached the moment of truth. It's binary. Either German Chancellor Angela Merkel has to bow to the logic of her predecessor but one, Helmut Kohl, who always saw monetary union as a route to federalism, or it's EFTA_R1_02204146

th. It's binary. Either German Chancellor Angela Merkel has to bow to the logic of her predecessor but o

e a constellation of European leaders as sympathetic to the Jewish state as figures like British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, Sarkozy, and -- the lone survivor among them today -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The prevalence of

ld know that he was under surveillance and take appropriate counter =easures. Because DSK had a 3:00 P.M. appointment with German Chancellor =ngela Merkel, he would then have boarded a fight to Berlin that morning. Merkel does not =ften hold meetings on Sunday, but DSK had insisted on it when he was in

York City on charges that would later be thrown out. The crisis was not =ontained. That Spring, the contagion spread to Italy—where Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi =as forced to resign—and to Spain. By 2012, most of Europe had been plunged into a recession, =pain had requested a euro bailout— and Greece was hol