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...Fair enough. But can even a big boys' club tackle the E.U.'s most pressing problems? "The interesting question," says Charles Grant, director of the Center for European Reform in London, "is whether [the Big Three] can extend their cooperation beyond foreign and defense policy to areas of E.U. domestic policy." The trouble is, this is the area that arouses so much suspicion among smaller states, who fear any initiative will be designed more to benefit the Big Three than the E.U. as a whole. Smaller states are still smarting over the laxity shown when France and Germany violated...
...strictly regional one. The strike was just the latest in a lengthening list, including walkouts by Alitalia employees and public-transport workers upset about salary freezes and job cuts. In Genoa, steelworkers clashed with police over some 700 expected layoffs, and magistrates angry about a proposed justice-system reform called a strike for next month. "You've got factory workers, professionals, working-class and middle-class people all saying the same thing: this government has not resolved the economic problems it said it would," says Guglielmo Epifani, head of Italy's largest labor union, CGIL. The strikes "should...
...spoke about the proliferation of poverty and drugs and the prioritization of the material wealth over education, but he also described his vision for change, which includes a comprehensive job program and school reform...
...interview on Monday, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 said he was glad Gross had drawn attention to grades but that more reform was needed...
...airing of their reports, entitled “Friends in High Places,” led to federal and state criminal investigations as well as legislation on contract reform...