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...Europe is becoming a reality. European leaders seem prepared to brazenly attack Islam and disregard the basic freedom of expression of which the Continent has become so proud. Even the president of the European Union, Herman Van Rompuy, espouses hard-line opposition to Turkey joining the EU, simply on the grounds of its Islamic population. Multiculturalism in the Old World may soon shape up to be little more than an ideal...
...order to be accepted into the European Union, the country reported deficits below the EU cap of 3 percent of GDP by allegedly falsifying data, according to Luca Einaudi, a visiting scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs...
When opposition leader Geórgios Papandréou assumed the office of Prime Minister in October 2009, he revealed that the deficit was much greater than expected—four times greater than the EU cap, Einaudi said. Soon after this announcement, rating agencies—on edge as a result of the recession—began downgrading Greek’s credit rating. Currently, Greek credit is trading at junk level: the lowest credit rating possible...
...certainty has crept from economics into other disciplines is obvious enough: A famous Harvard government professor often complains that no data-heavy, model-driven graduate student gets a good job in political science these days. Perhaps more importantly, such flawed assumptions have grounded endless flights this week. Just yesterday, EU regulators acknowledged they should have conducted more actual tests rather than outright banning European flights for five days. The EU director general for transport, Matthias Ruete, admitted as much when referring to the models that had led to the ban: “[They are] a black box in certain...
...comparing NATO and the EU to the left and right sides of the brain, respectively, Ilves said that the two must communicate with each other in order to function normally...