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...Opel workers ratcheted up the pressure on GM by going on strike on Thursday. "It's a black day for Opel," says Klaus Franz, leader of the company's works council. "The strikes will start in Germany, and then they'll spread across Europe on Friday." Thousands of workers gathered at the carmaker's plant in Rüsselsheim to vent their anger at the aborted sale. Roland Koch, governor of the state of Hesse, told the workers that GM couldn't be trusted and that he would fight to save every German job. The strike coincided with...
...Cambridge Election Commission announced nine unofficial City Council winners near midnight Tuesday, but the then-uncounted 22 percent of the votes may overturn those preliminary results...
...again, off-again discussions many times before with the United Nations and the European Union, among others." Real change, he said, could come only from Than Shwe, the supreme leader since 1992 of the military committee that rules the country and calls itself the State Peace and Development Council. Describing Burma as an oligarchy, Aung Zaw says that if Than Shwe had the political will, "he could solve 40 years of Burma's problems in four hours...
...Lisbon Treaty, which comes into effect on Dec. 1, will allow the E.U. to streamline many of its voting and decision-making procedures to alleviate the bureaucratic tangles that slow the organization down. It will also create a European Council president and a new foreign policy chief and strengthen the powers of the European Parliament. (See pictures behind the scenes of Obama in Europe...
...Lisbon Treaty has the potential to herald the emergence of a new world actor - a Europe that can look upwards and outwards and is equipped with the bureaucratic tools to do so," says Daniel Korski, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). But as the E.U. sets about implementing the Lisbon Treaty, Korski says the world must be patient while the new institutional infrastructure takes shape. "Butterflies are beautiful, in part because they take time to develop," he says...