Somewhat ironically, U2's "Beautiful Day" came blaring through the tannoy as heavy rain pounded down on the Ravenhill pitch and the sea of flags, scarves and hats in all corners of the ground created a colourful backdrop for what everyone hoped was going to be a very special European Friday night occasion.
While the U.S. has had its own winemaking scandals (usually around the honesty of zinfandel blends), the country is more often the object of scammers, usually fly-by-night European exporters selling "rare" wines at low prices.
The temporary European ban, announced last night, comes in the wake of dramatic falls in the share prices of European banks, especially those of Italy and France - where on Wednesday the shares in one giant bank, Societe Generale, were more than a fifth lower at one stage.
They could hardly have hoped for a better night against 1983 European champions, especially following their 600-mile drive to the match enforced by the closure of British airspace earlier this week.
Chambers finished out of the medals in Wednesday night's European Championships 100m final in Barcelona but he is likely to be part of the British squad for next year's World Championships and Campbell believes he should be welcomed back.
In a serious setback for the UK's fight to head-off some of the remuneration curbs, the European parliament late on Wednesday night secured agreement on a mandatory 1:1 ratio on salary relative to variable pay, which can rise to 2:1 with explicit shareholder approval.
It helps boost the other essential ritual that takes place during Atlantic salmon trips: those long, blissfully drawn-out European-style dinners and drinks that happen every night.
Having been held to a 1-1 draw in the first leg, Rangers had to score in Lisbon to keep their European hopes alive and took the lead on the night through El Hadji Diouf.
"If what we saw last night was a political tremor, in the European elections we can cause an earthquake".
The authorities in Indonesia ordered television stations to go off the air at night, although they subsequently exempted broadcasts of European football matches, to which many of their compatriots are addicted.
Whatever now happens in Cyprus negotiations over a possible new deal were ongoing on Sunday night ahead of a Monday deadline when the European Central Bank says it will pull the plug on the two failed banks the outlook for Cyprus and the euro zone is now far bleaker than it was a week ago.
Thus, last night's result leaves an open goal for the European Union to resolve the Greek crisis.
Singapore will host the sport's first night race this weekend in a move made to satisfy European television viewers.
European markets fell sharply Tuesday after euro zone finance ministers said last night that they will wait until later in October than previously thought to decide whether the extend more aid to Greece.
The European golf stars were well behind the U.S team on Saturday night but they received a healthy dose of inspiration from captain Jose Maria Olazabal.
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European champions Chelsea take on Swansea in the other semifinal first leg on Wednesday night.
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Big U.S.-traded Chinese oil companies followed the petroleum market on Friday night higher on hopes that global economic growth will benefit from increased European cooperation.
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The other night fellow Forbes contributor Josh Barro tweeted out an interesting story about European attitudes towards gay marriage, a story based on a 2006 Eurobarometer poll.
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Third, once this tool has been used once, there is likely to be external pressure for it to be used again when other European banks get into trouble, an event that is as sure to happen as night following day.
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And in the dinner last night, I thought something very interesting was said -- these are Central European leaders and presidents from all across the region.
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Late last night Moody's put the eurozone's operational bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility, on so-called "negative outlook", which means it is at serious risk of losing its AAA credit rating.
For a group of stranded European business travelers, the snow meant making the best of downtime in a hotel restaurant Friday night in downtown Boston, where snow blew outside and drifted several inches deep on the sidewalks.
On Friday night, the man many regard as the second best middleweight in the world defended his European title at a leisure centre in Essex before a meagre crowd.
If the jubilation didn't match that expressed the night before, when Greece improbably defeated Russia to earn a berth in the quarterfinals of the European soccer championships, it was, at least, more buoyant than most.
European leaders are so terrified their political project will fail that they cobble together these deals in the middle of the night, and then wonder why the whole thing fails to materialize 18 months later.
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