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The past couple of years haven't been kind to the European Union: it's been battered by the recession, buffeted by the Greek debt crisis and bypassed by a host of dynamic, emerging nations. The E.U. is desperate for a magic potion to revitalize its creaking economy, but it...
Indeed, the Europe 2020 strategy had a similarly ambitious predecessor that failed to deliver: the ill-fated Lisbon agenda, which was adopted with fanfare by E.U. leaders a decade ago with the aim of transforming Europe into "the world's most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy" by 2010. But...
This time around, there are growing calls for compliance mechanisms to be built into the strategy. They have become louder as the euro crisis has unfolded in recent weeks, with many officials saying that tougher fiscal oversight might have prevented the collapse of Greece's public finances. "We cannot have...
Barroso sees this is a crisis-driven leap into further European economic integration. Euro-zone finance ministers are already putting Greece's budgetary policies under more scrutiny than any member state has ever had to endure - and there are now suggestions that similar measures could be taken with economic policies...
Though not readily apparent, each story is, in some way or another, tied to the earth. The deaths of soldiers and their burial 150 years previous allow a floundering construction worker, through their exhumation, to survive and pay his bills. In “Hard Times” an aging...