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...many targets and there were political splits on issues like opening up labor markets. But another issue was that E.U. leaders were simply unwilling to overhaul their economies - and there was no enforcement mechanism in place to put them into line. Ann Mettler, head of the Lisbon Council, a Brussels-based think tank, says European leaders have been too cautious about reform, backing off, for example, when it comes to tackling energy oligopolies and inefficient, formerly state-run telecom operators. "We are in a state of crisis," she says. "We can't just have a battery of lofty goals...
...reversal of a decision passed last Sunday, the Undergraduate Council voted yesterday to suspend efforts to fund the creation of an online study guide library for undergraduates...
While the Council could vote in the future to reinstate this project, Hysen said that last night’s cancellation of project funding would likely prevent the site from launching this year...
Prior to the motion to strike the study guide library plans, the Council passed legislation that formalized the partnership between the UC and Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisers...
...intend to bring their cases before the European Human Rights Court if necessary. "We want to prove that sterilization is what's really at play here," says Delphine Ravisé-Giard, one of the plaintiffs. And the group's got friends at the European level. Thomas Hammarberg, the Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights, has been fighting to end the mandatory sterilization of transsexuals in the European Union, calling it a human-rights violation...