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Portugal faces a crucial presidential election this week as the economy continues to collapse. Many commentators believe that Portugal will be the next European Union country to need a financial bailout.

China's leaders are busy touring the globe. President Hu Jintao has been visiting the US a week after vice-premier Li Keqiang, whom Hu backs as the next prime minister, did the rounds of the European Union (EU).

The US and the European Union are stepping up the pressure to decide who will govern in West Africa’s Ivory Coast. Most observers declared that Alassane Ouattara beat sitting president Laurent Gbagbo in the election on 28 November 2010.

The European financial system was on the edge this week with bankers demanding more cuts from economies already ravaged by austerity measures.

Unite union members at Coca-Cola Enterprises in Edmonton, North London, joined protests by Coca-Cola workers across Europe and Britain on Wednesday of last week.

Racist plans to celebrate the launch of a "European Defence League" flopped in the Netherlands last Saturday.

Students from Greece and Austria came to the EAN conference, as well as Julien Sergere, a college teacher from France.

Racist Dutch politician Geert Wilders is launching a European Defence League in Amsterdam on Saturday 30 October.

Around 100,000 workers from across Europe marched through Brussels in Belgium on Wednesday of last week as part of the European TUC’s day of action against austerity.

A hundred thousand workers from across Europe surged through Brussels as part of the European TUC day of action against austerity.

‘A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism." So begins the most important political pamphlet ever written—The Communist Manifesto.