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...bailout plan also presents an opportunity to improve several conditions within the European Union. The European Union allowed many Eastern European countries to amass unsustainable levels of debt in order to create a sense of prosperity—an act that has compounded the negative impacts of the current crisis. A bailout plan would generate more stringent economic regulations and could be used to promote unification of the national fiscal policies within Europe...
...support Eastern nations, there will still be a shortage of funds and instability will endure. Both Eastern and Western European countries should appeal to outside sources of aid and attempt to garner increased assistance from institutions such as the IMF. Only with a combined effort does the European Union have the credible means to pull through the economic crisis...
...troubled conditions, countries have a natural impulse to turn inward and focus on their own problems. However, the member states of the European Union are not isolated nations, but part of a larger political cooperation. Both for egotistic reasons and for the long-term well being of the EU, Western European countries must lend their support to Eastern European nations and attempt to retain a unified Europe...
...venting their rage. On Feb. 21, the country saw its biggest public demonstration in a generation as 120,000 people took to the streets of Dublin. Most were civil servants protesting a levy on public-sector pensions, which the government says will save the country $1.2 billion. Unions are currently balloting members on a planned general strike for March 30, with the head of the country's trade-union umbrella group warning of a "doomsday situation" should the government fail to introduce a recovery plan that gains the support of social partners. According to the most recent opinion polls, only...
...referral even though three of the Security Council's five permanent members - Russia, China and the U.S. - have not signed on to the statute.) Plus, the ICC has thus far only pursued Africans, in the Central African Republic and Congo as well as Sudan and Uganda. "That," said African Union chairman Jean Ping in February, "is a problem." Asking why no cases had emerged from conflicts in Gaza, the Caucasus, Colombia or Iraq, Ping said, "We don't want this double standard." (See pictures of Sudan's slow-motion tragedy...