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...Pacheco. Stavros Dimas’ talk at the Kennedy School focused on the European Union’s proactive commitment to tackling climate change—the body’s “number one priority”—and entreated the United States to follow suit. “There is a domestic part and an international part to our [environmental] legislation,” Dimas said. “The domestic part is giving us the moral argument to ask other countries—not only developing countries but also countries like...
...previously issued an even more sweeping guarantee hardly shielded Germany from criticism: as Europe's biggest economy, it sets a massive precedent. Indeed, since Merkel's announcement, Denmark, Sweden and Austria have taken steps to offer stronger guarantees to their depositors. Spain is reportedly considering a move to follow suit, and British politicians were in talks with banks on Monday night about a stopgap measure to inject government funds into selected institutions...
...Date: Dec. 10 Background: Javaid Iqbal, a Pakistani man living and working in New York, was arrested on credit card fraud charges after the Sept. 11 attacks. While in custody in the maximum security section of Metropolitan Detention Center, Iqbal allegedly received "gross mistreatment." After being deported, he filed suit against the prison and FBI Director Robert Mueller and former Attorney General John Ashcroft, claiming multiple civil rights violations including that the officials "designed, or at least approved of, a policy of segregating Arab and Muslim detainees from the general prison population until individually cleared of suspicion...
...Merkel, faced with the breakdown of a government-brokered deal with German banks to save one of Germany's biggest mortgage lenders, announced that all German bank deposits would be guaranteed by the government, causing consternation and anger among her European neighbors, many of whom felt compelled to follow suit...
...Brown in grumbling about a similar total savings guarantee announced last week by Ireland, which E.U. competition authorities had already pledged to challenge as a competition-distorting measure. But with Germany, Europe's largest economy, reversing its stand and taking that same route Sunday, Austria said it would follow suit - making it the fourth E.U. nation to guarantee private savings, along with Greece. Denmark and Sweden also raised the limits on savings they would guarantee, and by Monday, even British Finance Minister Alistair Darling was giving signals that Britain too might swap its current $88,000-per-person savings guarantee...