Word: europeanate
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...these exceptional cases, there may be other options. Several European Union states, chiefly Germany and Portugal, have voiced support for the idea of accepting detainees in the EU. Moreover, the possibility of increased cooperation has numerous benefits, including the creation of a double sense of solidarity. A shared transatlantic commitment to responsible, humane detention should balance a firm promise to fight terrorism on all fronts...
Potty Talk. RyanAir, the low-cost European carrier, floated the idea of charging customers 1 pound (about $1.45) to use in-flight toilets. It wasn't clear whether CEO Michael O'Leary was serious about implementing the fee, which he said would help lower ticket costs, or just courting media attention. Europeans may be accustomed to paying for using the facilities on trains and in public places, but let's hope domestic carriers don't latch on to the idea...
Meeting in Brussels for a long Sunday lunch, European Union leaders were supposed to clear the air after weeks of jibes, sneers and slurs over who is to blame for the economic crisis. But after a three-hour meal of goat cheese, beef stew and apple crumble, they emerged as ratty as ever, barely concealing their long-standing gripes and graphically revealing how far the E.U. is from any coordinated response to the downturn...
...German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected calls for a mass bailout. And Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who chairs meetings of the Eurozone's finance ministers, dismissed appeals by wannabe members to relax entry criteria for single European currency. U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown - clearly eying French President Nicolas Sarkozy - denounced protectionism as a "road to ruin". And Sarkozy himself testily denied being protectionist but then accused eastern Europe of putting the entire E.U. at economic and political risk...
...summit itself ended in reluctant pledges to help eastern Europeans, but only on a country-by-country basis, as well as repeated mantras about avoiding protectionism. But if the show of unity was unconvincing, the issues are very real. Crashing exchange rates, soaring debts and failing banks: eastern European economies have fallen far faster and harder than their richer, Western neighbors. Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek - whose country currently holds the E.U.'s presidency - says the developing recession is "the greatest crisis in the history of European integration...