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...electricity behemoth EDF and Enel - continue to have a hand in the generation, supply and distribution of energy. It's tough for potential new entrants to break into those businesses. "The main way in which these markets become 'contestable' is thus via takeovers of less efficient players," says Daniel Gros, director of the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. The result: Europe's biggest utilities spent the last decade or so snapping up subsidiaries in member states, rather than in truly opening up their home markets to genuine competition from their counterparts...
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...that more obvious to school administrators? Consider the case of Davin Gros. Davin is a rangy, sweet, brilliant kid who lives with his mom, stepdad and three siblings on a remote stretch of Iowa cornfields outside Thornburg (pop. 91). Davin, who turns 15 this week, has blindingly blue eyes and blondish-brown hair that he colors jet black. The day we met was a Thursday, but Davin was at home. After a long struggle with the school system, his mom Laura Knipfer now home schools...
...Brus-sels are intertwined - yet another trap for Blair. And even if somehow, sometime, they could be persuaded to vote Britain into the single currency, the process of joining would be awkward on both sides. "Britain might be a source of considerable friction in the euro zone," says Daniel Gros, director of the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, because of its free-market ways and likely disdain for euro-zone norms. In this forest of difficulties, the euro at least has one unquestioned virtue. It gives Blair proof of the oldest adage of politics: be careful what...
...interest rates, exchange rates and the course of its struggling economic rebound. This year he will be a pivotal figure in determining the fate of the European Union's ambitious but risky plan to create a single currency, the euro. "On paper he has no role whatever," says Daniel Gros, a monetary expert at Brussels' Center for European Policy Studies. "But because of his position, Tietmeyer...