Completed in 2009, this is Tres Hombre's fourth trade trip after previous voyages across western Europe, the Caribbean and even delivering relief aid to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.

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Well probably the same thing that has the market rallying overall: some temporary good news from Europe and a bit of retail-related relief courtesy of Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

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Baroness Ashton told MEPs that Europe's primary aim was to deliver quick relief to the "most affected and vulnerable population".

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EU, Mr Klaus's failure has been a relief, for he is one of Central Europe's Eurosceptics and might have made the Czech entry into the club trickier.

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On Europe, on environmental policy, on international aid and debt relief, on attempts to regulate international financial markets, the Government is reversing the legacy of Thatcherism.

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Yet even here, while officials in Brussels express a sign of relief that, in their opinion, the worst of Europe's economic crisis is behind them - the poor are getting poorer.

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However, there is also a sigh of relief that the latest crisis seems to have spared most of Europe so far.

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Should this be this outcome, in some way it may come as a relief as it is far easier to blame an event than to accept responsibility for Europe's actions over the past two years.

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