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...points out that the European Union ruled in 2006 that phone and Internet providers were required to keep all cell-phone and e-mail data for a certain period of time. "That just seems wrong and an invasion of privacy," he says. "We have not caught on to the implications of all these conversations being kept for so long." While he acknowledges that the app might also be a boon to teens who are in the habit of sexting, drunk texting or "running off at the thumb," he thinks lawyers and their clients and business executives involved in complicated deals...
...European Union was initially hailed throughout the world as “the European miracle,” a triumph for supranational organizations and international unity. Banded together in a monetary and trade-based union, the EU experienced rapidly rising living conditions and surprisingly harmonious relations. The last few months have shown, however, that the EU’s economic foundations were fundamentally flawed. Monetary and fiscal policy are deeply related, so a monetary union in which each subunit pursues its own fiscal policy is destined to fail. The best and most practical solution for the European Union...
...intermediate step to fiscal and political integration might be the creation of a European Monetary Fund that follows a set of fixed processes for assistance to struggling states. In the long term, however, the only feasible solution that will prevent such situations from occurring again is a stronger political union that will coordinate economic policies on a larger scale...
...more new taxes without your approval," says Birch. "They'll need two-thirds to pass it." Birch admits he is not aware that California is the only state in the union where it is necessary to obtain a two-thirds majority in the legislature to pass a budget and initiate a new tax. (There is another proposed measure, which Birch is not peddling, that would change the legislative vote required to pass a state budget from two-thirds to a simple majority.) Williams, a regular voter, admits to confusion on many of the initiatives. "I never know what...
...with Kim during most of her training sessions, pushing her to the remarkable speed she achieves as she flies across the rink. The move may have been just what Kim needed. "I think Yu-Na improved so much in Canada," says Jae Eun Chung, director of the Korean Skating Union. "The Korean culture values being quiet, but in figure skating, you need to express various feelings. She improved her confidence and her expression...