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...Ultimately, says Grebo, a long-time campaigner for human rights and peaceful ethnic co-existence, the only secure future for Bosnia is through further European integration by joining the European Union and NATO. Most Bosnians agree. It's just the getting there that's difficult...
...Greece and the European Union rush to stop the Greek problem from spilling over into the rest of the EU, we urge them to take heed of popular sentiment and not shore up Greek debt with taxpayer money from Germany and France—the only two eurozone economies in a position to help. Doing so would constitute forcing a stronger political union on eurozone and, more broadly, EU member-countries where such a union does not exist and is not wanted by their citizens...
European voters have not authorized the EU to become an integrated political union that can determine a common fiscal policy for eurozone members. As such, it should not be in the power of European leaders to extract from EU treaties the ability to do so; rather, they should allow the IMF to lead the charge as it is an institution designed to do just that. Difficult as it may be, the EU must ensure that whatever steps it takes toward stronger economic union are not yet dependent on strengthening its political...
...strikers argue, however, that their protest is misunderstood. "We are not defending drunk driving," Carlos Casillo, 28, of the 22 de Mayo transport workers union explained to TIME. He and about 30 other drivers were planted on a La Paz street corner under the hot noon soon "enforcing" the strike. When the occasional operating taxi or mini-bus passed by, the group would bang on its hood and try to block its passage. Casillo concedes that harsh penalties are appropriate for drivers who've been drinking. But, he says, the rest isn't fair: "I hire others to drive...
...During the trial, Gelowicz admitted he had been a member of the al-Qaeda-linked, Pakistan-based terrorist group, Islamic Jihad Union, and that in 2006, he had traveled to an IJU training camp in northwestern Pakistan on the border with Afghanistan where he received training in weapons and explosives and met Schneider, who later became one of the other operatives in the Sauerland cell. On their return to Germany, Gelowicz's lawyer says the men discussed a number of high-profile U.S. targets, like Ramstein Air Base. "They had clear goals - they wanted to kill U.S. soldiers in Germany...