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...center-right European parliamentary grouping, annoying German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has promised a referendum on Lisbon if the treaty is not ratified by all E.U. members before the election. It probably will be; but even if Cameron resists pressure from his party to hold a vote, come what may, he is likely to try and renegotiate parts of the treaty, for example on justice and social policy, to give Britain more "opt-outs." (Read: "Nasty No More? Britain's Tories Reach Out to Gays...
...attention to their grueling shifts, which they say are hazardous to passenger safety. Backed by the European Cockpit Association, which represents some 38,000 pilots and crew members, protesters handed out some 100,000 fake boarding passes containing warnings about fatigue and arguments against the current E.U. laws, which hold that flight personnel can stay airborne for up to 14 hr. per day and 11 hr. 45 min. overnight. A 2003 study found that the risk of accidents for pilots who had been working 13 hr. or more was 5½ times the risk for all pilots...
Whether it was the presence of their former teammates or just the knowledge of the importance of the game that drove the Crimson players, they were able to hold on and claim a 1-0 victory that not only turns their season, but also the conference standings...
...elements whose absence allowed the Taliban to flourish in the first place. There, too, a lesson can be taken from the Swat experience. Military officials in the Swat Valley recently released thousands of low-level Taliban captives into the custody of local authorities, who have neither the infrastructure to hold nor the facilities to try the militants...
...officials who are most worried about time, not Klaus. The likely next British Prime Minister, the Conservative Party's David Cameron, says he will hold a referendum on the treaty if it is not ratified by all 27 E.U. member states before the next U.K. elections, due by June 2010. "Klaus is just looking for another pretext to let the ratification linger until British elections," says Sara Pini, who heads the Brussels office of the Robert Schuman Foundation think tank. "No one can compel him to sign, but the E.U. could give him a reason to. This could...