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...Ireland's struggles are becoming all too familiar in the economic downturn as cash-strapped governments across the continent have made massive cuts in public services and begun to charge for things that were once free. "There is definitely a cause for concern at this point," says Thomas Estermann, head of funding for the European University Association. "On the one hand, we see how important it is to invest in higher education and research to overcome the crisis, but governments that had to bail out their financial sectors have to make cuts somewhere. It's difficult to balance that...
Despite the fact that most European economies are officially growing again, the effects of the recession are only just beginning to hit national budgets, Estermann says. Though countries like France might not be willing to make sweeping changes to their education systems yet, incremental changes over the next several years could produce a wholly different picture of education in the future. "The crisis is not over. We will need to wait some time to see what's really going to happen in some countries," Estermann says. "Even those who do not cut now will come under pressure in the future...
...dinner very much anymore and East Berliners stay in their neighborhoods," he says. "I have to attract convention goers, business groups and tourists." Despite its malaise, Berlin has some solid achievements. The city has built clusters of knowledge-based industries in the software, media and biotech sectors. Hans Estermann, managing director of the Berlin Business Development Corporation, says the city has attracted about 1,500 jobs in the first five months of the year. Among the new arrivals: factories for DaimlerChrysler, BMW and the U.S. electronics giant Motorola. Still, Berlin will have to do a lot better...
...letter is needed from each candidate's local authority certifying that he has been an upstanding member of the community. "It's important for us to have only the best," says Segmüller, who has led the Swiss Guard since the 1998 murder of his predecessor, Alois Estermann, by a corporal passed over for a merit award. "And it goes without saying that in order to work in the Vatican the candidate must be a church-goer. He must believe in what he is doing here." To replenish the ranks, Segmüller has hired a job-recruitment firm...
KILLED. ALOIS ESTERMANN, 43, commander of the Pope's Swiss Guards; and his wife Gladys Meza Romero, 49; shot by disgruntled Swiss Guard Cedric Tornay, 23, who then shot himself; in the first murders on Vatican land in 150 years...