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Seven members of Samak's cabinet also faced no-confidence motions; all of them survived the vote. But the fact that the ruling coalition held together doesn't mean that Thai politics are returning to normal. Coup rumors abound. Street protesters vow to continue their rallies, especially if Samak continues...
Or else the E.U. could simply plow on with what it has under the existing treaties. This last option has been decried as a recipe for gridlock. Yet studies have shown that the 27 member states still function well with machinery designed for 15. Last December, Helen Wallace of the...
This happens to be a favorite theme of Einhorn's. "The authorities are good at cleaning up fraud after the money's gone," he writes in his new book, Fooling Some of the People All of the Time. But they "really don't know what to do about fraud when...
Few have escaped the dragnet. On June 5, militias surrounded a car carrying U.S. diplomats and threatened to kill them. The regime has also arrested and beaten journalists, local and foreign. On June 18, the government eased an earlier ban on foreign aid groups, whom it accused of supporting the...
The Irish result set off a whirl of confusion, with officials struggling to suggest how the E.U. might respond. "The Treaty is not dead," said European Commission President José Manuel Barroso. "We should now try to find a solution." The first step, he urged, would be to continue the...