Six per cent come from the Netherlands and five per cent from Belgium, while 19 per cent have been bought from a combination of countries. While some of the bonds are strong investments, the ECB is gambling with European Union (EU) cash by purchasing bonds deemed risky. The ECB has promised to reach a two per cent level of inflation by March next year, but with inflation at 0.2 per cent this month, the end goal is looking unlikely.

The figures come as damning new research reveals Europe faces a "bleak" economic future, with countries such as Spain, Italy and Portugal destined for disaster. A survey of voters in Eurozone nations has revealed how there are stark differences between the prosperous north and impoverished south as the gulf between the winners and losers of the single currency experiment grows ever wider.

In booming Germany, whose exports have been propped up by the relatively weak value of the Euro, three quarters of people feel optimistic about the state of the economy and the country’s future. But at the other end of the scale there is Greece, where only an abysmal two per cent of the population feel that the financial system is working in their interests. When mapped, the results of the poll reveal how Europe has been split into two continents by the Euro, with growing bitterness over the divide between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’.

The survey also found confidence in the Euro economy was fragile even before the Brexit vote, with most voters already depressed about the state of the continent’s finances. An astonishing 86 per cent of French people feel their floundering economy is doing badly - the same figure as for Spain, while two-thirds of Italians are dissatisfied with sluggish growth. The survey was carried out between April 4 and May 29 this year - before Britain’s historic vote to leave the EU.

The country is trying largely on its own to accommodate migrants fleeing war and poverty, with most other European Union members refusing to contribute, Georg Pazderski - co-leader of the AfD in Berlin - said in an interview with Bloomberg Television broadcast on Tuesday.

“We have to put our heads out of the clouds and put our feet down to earth just to find solutions to this problem,” said Pazderski, a retired German army officer who worked for several years with General David Petraeus at US Central Command in Tampa, Florida. “Even the British went out of the EU because of this refugee crisis, which means we have to make realistic policy, we have to look to Realpolitik to what we can do.”

Two-thirds of Germans oppose the chancellor’s handling of the refugee crisis, according to an Infratest dimap poll for ARD public television published last week. Voter support for Merkel slumped 12 percentage points to 47 percent in July, the second-lowest of her third term that started in 2013, after attacks committed by refugees unsettled the public and sparked political opposition.

Germany's economy will be affected more than other Eurozone countries due to its reliance on exports, according to staggering new research by the group. A spokesman said: "Even after two years, the gross domestic product will still be below the level it would have been without the shock of this uncertainty."

Economic analyst Marc Biese has urged Angela Merkel to keep close ties with the UK, because a staggering 750,000 jobs rely on cross-Channel exports. Speaking last month, he said: "In Germany there is a very strong industrial sector that maintains intensive trade deals with the UK. These are very crucial industries, 750,000 jobs are connected to these. This includes the entire car industry, we sell an incredible amount of cars to Britain.

"It includes mechanical engineering, the pharmaceutical industry, IT, the food industries. So very big areas in which a lot of money is turned over." Speaking to a Bavarian newspaper, he added: "If you have trade ties this close, you need to be very careful that doors remain open and are not being shut. This is why we can't, for economical reasons, give in to rage, be angry, be offended, we just can't afford to. We need to maintain the dialogue with Britain."

The announcement by the Kremlin could herald the start of improved relations between the two countries that have been strained since the 2006 poisoning death of former spy Alexander Litvinenko and the Ukraine crisis, among other issues. In the phone call, which Moscow said was initiated by Britain, both leaders "expressed dissatisfaction with the current parameters of cooperation in both the political and economic sphere".

The Kremlin said Mr Putin and Mrs May agreed to develop a dialogue between security agencies on issues related to aviation security, and made plans for a face-to-face meeting in the "near future". The statement noted that Mrs May confirmed Britain's intention to participate in ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the first British Second World War convoy in the Russian city Arkhangelsk this month.

"The Prime Minister noted the importance of the relationship between the UK and Russia and expressed the hope that, despite differences on certain issues, they could communicate in an open and honest way about the issues that mattered most to them," the spokesman said. The pair will meet at the G20 summit of world leaders in China next month.

Hillary is taking Coumadin, also known as Warfarin. It’s a rat poison. It kills rats by causing them to bleed out internally. This is a fact. Therefore, the prescribing doctor and the patient walk a tightrope. How much Coumadin is too much? How little is too little? Too much, and life-threatening bleeding can occur. Too little and fatal blood clots can occur.

Therefore, Hillary is being monitored VERY closely, on a weekly basis, with tests. But the tests aren’t mathematically precise. The monitoring isn’t ironclad science. And since Coumadin is highly toxic, serious liver damage is a consequence, especially when the drug is given long-term, which is the case here. Media outlets are going with, “Well, her doctors know what they’re doing. They’re issuing positive reports. They’re giving her a clean bill of health.”

Nonsense. You put someone on Coumadin, long-term, and you’re rolling the dice. In her case, this treatment is back-against-the-wall, last-line-of-defense. If her past blood clots were somehow interpreted as minor or incidental, long-term Coumadin would never be the treatment of choice. This patient, Hillary Clinton, is very high-risk.

The last thing you would want this patient to do is engage in day-to-day, high-stress activity. You would definitely not want the patient to fly in airplanes, because that activity can exacerbate her condition. Lethally.

“We’re not broke in 20 years to 30 years, we’re broke now,” Kotlikoff said. “All the bills have been kept off the books by Congress and presidential administrations for six decades.” The $6.3 trillion increase in the infinite horizon projection shows that Social Security Administration actuaries are more pessimistic about economic and wage growth, Kotlikoff said.

A projection, known as the "infinite horizon," takes into account all the program's future liabilities, even those beyond the 75-year period that Social Security actuaries typically use in their calculations. Under the infinite horizon, Social Security will have $32.1 trillion in unfunded liabilities by 2090, $6.3 trillion more than last year's projection.

That file, which would stretch nearly a quarter of a mile if printed and laid end-to-end, offered a glimpse into Facebook's appetite for the private details of its 1.65 billion users. The information included phone numbers and email addresses of Mr Schrems' friends and family; a history of all the devices he used to log in to the service; all the events he had been invited to; everyone he had "friended" (and subsequently de-friended); and an archive of his private messages. It even included transcripts of messages he'd deleted.

But Mr Schrems, who says he only used Facebook occasionally over a three-year period, believes a sizeable chunk of information was withheld from him. He received data records for about 50 categories, but believes there are more than 100, he tells the BBC. "They withheld my facial recognition data, which is a technology that can identify me through my pictures. They don't disclose tracking information either, which is the even creepier stuff they do - things like whether you've read a webpage about a sports car and how long you read it for."

Facebook can even track non-members' internet usage through the use of cookies placed on their machines, as a recent legal decision in Belgium confirmed. Mr Schrems' experience vividly illustrates the challenges we face in a digital age full of messaging apps, social networks, tailored search engines, email clients, and banking apps, all collecting personal data about us and storing it, somewhere, in the cloud.

"I do think that Americans should be concerned about these chemicals," said Susan M Pinney, a professor in the department of environmental health at University of Cincinnati. Pinney, who did not participate in the new research, explained that not enough time has elapsed to understand all the long-term health effects of these toxins.

"PFASs are organic compounds that are really useful," said Xindi Hu, lead author of the new study and a doctoral student at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. This usefulness means these chemicals are used to make such items as food packaging materials (such as pizza boxes and popcorn bags), fabrics, nonstick cooking pans and firefighting foams.

As a result of their ubiquity, the chemicals migrate into air, household dust, food, soil and ground and surface water, and they eventually make their way into drinking water. The problem with PFASs is that they remain in your body for a long time. Though other chemicals can be excreted within hours, it takes about 3½ years for your body to get rid of just half of whatever amount you ingest, Pinney explained, speaking of one particular PFAS she has studied. If you are exposed day after day, they will accumulate in your body.